What Does a Pine Grosbeak Look Like? Nicknamed “mopes” by Newfoundlanders for their subdued and approachable personalities, pine grosbeaks tend to freeze rather than fly when they feel threatened.

When hiking through subalpine forests in Colorado, the pine grosbeak is a treat on the treeline trail. I often encounter them when hiking in the mountains near timberline at around 11,000 feet.

Over the last few months, we’ve been enjoying the last category — unusually large numbers of pine grosbeaks. I have not seen pine grosbeaks even once per year. As a downhill skier, I have ...

When pine grosbeaks feed voraciously on fruit still hanging on trees? And, if we are really lucky, when evening grosbeaks and crossbills descend on us? These northern finches periodically move ...

When the bears finally go to sleep for the winter, birdfeeders in Island Park come out with a vengeance. At our house, we smear a suet blend on a tree trunk that I move onto our deck and scatter ...

We saw other things of interest: a small, loose flock of pine grosbeaks was moving rather rapidly through the understory, sometimes poking at an upright shrub stem, as if checking for edibles.

Here in New England, you are most likely to see rose-breasted grosbeaks, but we also have pine grosbeaks, and evening grosbeaks (blue and black-headed grosbeaks are very rare). Weirdly ...

When that happens, Maine can be hopping with pine siskins, crossbills or evening grosbeaks. Although evening grosbeaks nest in Maine, we mainly see them in the winter as the population swells from ...

More colorful visitors include the brilliant Steller’s jays, the pine grosbeaks and less often, gray-crowned rosy-finches, which invariably arrive in large flocks. On a snowy weekend recently ...