The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak, and the 2 even occasionally hybridize where they come into contact in the western Great Plains.

It had a black-capped head and bib, white cheeks, a whitish beige belly and gray-streaked wings. The chickadee grabbed a seed and zoomed off to a nearby tree. Then in flashed another.