Lumen 21-3, 2.0 Evening Grosbeak Posted – August 5, 2021 Irrelevant tid bit – … between the longing for love and the struggle for legal tender. “The Pretender” Jackson Browne In the winter of 2020-21 a single female Evening Grosbeak ( Coccothraustes vespertinus ) showed up at a backyard bird feeder in Mena, Arkansas (irrelevant aside – after I retired from full time work, I spent several years helping FEMA process damage claims associated with natural disasters {floods, hurricanes} including a month driving the washed out gravel roads around Mena). The Evening Male EVGR Grosbeak generally lives in southern Canada and in the U.S. in the northern Rocky Mountains and coastal mountains of the northwest, but sometimes in the winter it irrupts south into a more southern and wider area of the U.S. These irruptions are irregular, infrequent, and cover dif...