Bird Watching

Pine Grosbeak, Male
One of our winter residents

A quote from one of Thoreau's journal entries:

December 11, 1855

"When some rare northern bird like the pine grosbeak is seen thus far south [New England] in the winter, he does not suggest poverty, but dazzles us with his beauty. There is in them a warmth akin to the warmth that melts the icicle."

~ Henry David Thoreau
(The Heart of Thoreau's Journals)