This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.
This meeting with the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surpise to me. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

(Pheucticus ludovicianus)

Description:

This meeting with the immature male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak came as a welcome surprise to me. On my third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas I intended to pick up images of some of the birds I missed on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day.

Date Taken: 2020:04:24 11:42

Location:

Atascosa NWR
Los Fresnos, Texas
United States
36.09 ft above sea level

Camera Information:

NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250

File Name: RoseBreastedGrosbeak_D506544-Atascosa-NWR

© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com

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