Regarding your recent Beak of the Week entry with an evening grosbeak, we have been happily viewing a pair of them out our window. This pair seems to be a mated pair and has been together all spring.
Do you know if that’s the case, bonding as a mated pair? That has advantages for both, but I hope that they can live long together. There was a case in New England involving a pair of swans where some teen jerks broke into the enclosure in the town where the swans lived, murdered the male and stole all the signets. The female was absolutely inconsolable. I trust that our neighbors would never do that. Anyway, in this case the teens were found and the signets were retrieved but the parents were busy eating the male swan. Disgusting! Lucky they don’t live in England where all the swans are owned by the King. There they’d be fined, imprisoned or both.
James Bundy
Centralia
