I've enjoyed reading the recent reports and seeing photos of aberrantly-pigmented birds being spotted in southern Maine. I thought I'd chime in with the sighting of an unusual Evening Grosbeak that has been observed in northern Maine since back in January.
-- The bird was first seen by Brenda and Alton Ketch at Madawaska Lake. It is bright yellow over most of its body and gives the initial impression of a great big canary. The Ketch's hosted the bird and its flock,in their yard for over a month before it moved on.
This AM I was excited to find the same critter in my yard (about 12 miles south of Madawaska Lake). The grosbeak with about 80 normally plumaged Evening Grosbeaks and I was able to get a few pics before it departed.
I put a few of my photos of the grosbeak on my Flickr photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/71911844@N04/16536924377/
On the Northern Maine Birds Blog, I also posted some of Brenda's great shots from earlier in the month as well as a collage with side-by-side comparison our photos of the bird in similar poses to show its the same individual.
A real interesting bird to study. It made me do some homework on pigmentation problems in Evening Grosbeak. I learned what "non-melanic schizochroic" plumage is.
Good Birding
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