Pine Grosbeaks are large, colorful finches. This female, with its russet head and and rump and white wingbars makes quite a striking presence on a spruce branch. Now, the perfect perch would have been a pine branch but since spruce and pine are both conifers, this is actually quite the perfect perch for this bird, photographed at Sax-Zim Bog in Minnesota last month.
Carol, gorgeous colors against the background. Tack sharp focus as usual. I love it. Jim