Tag: Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

  • The Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, our Beautiful Guest

    The Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, our Beautiful Guest

    by M. Kathy Raines The striking bird—its white chest seemingly splattered with crimson paint—hopped about with his female companion in the grass at the South Padre Island Convention Center last April, eating its fill, undaunted by ardent photographers.  These rose-breasted grosbeaks, fatigued and famished, stop off here in April and early May to rest and…