I too had a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (male) and female Eastern Towhee this morning. She was foraging in the wooded lot next door. The Grosbeak was on a White Pine where my feeders are. Nancy on Lake George Ticonderoga, NY (not far from VT!) On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Jane Stein <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Woke up this morning to see the two Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks on the ground > under the feeder plus 10 to 12 White-Crowned Sparrows and an odd-looking > Grosbeak-sized bird with them that my as yet uncaffeinated brain finally > recognized as a female Towhee a split second before the whole bunch flushed. > > I've not had a Towhee here in the 10 years I've been here and haven't laid > eyes on one anywhere else in that time, so I was a bit slow on the uptake, > and pre-coffee, I might have been hallucinating. Haven't caught sight of > it since then so far. > > Jane > Shoreham > -- Nancy A. Carter [log in to unmask]