It is going to be a colourful winter

 

Evening grosbeaks, bluejays and pine grosbeaks liven up what can be a black-and-white winter landscape. I think I have referred in the past to the grosbeaks as 'resident birds.' If so, that isn't exactly correct as pointed out by local birder Brian Ratcliff who writes a bird column in the Thunder Bay newspaper. The grosbeaks actually breed farther north. They only come south in the winter. So they might better be called 'winter residents.'

We love to see them. There seem to be lots this year. Sometimes there are none.