RED CONSPICUOUS IN PLUMAGE ATT 
Breeding Season: May and June. 
Nest: Flat, thin structure composed of rootlets and twigs, lined with 
finer roots, usually placed in coniferous trees. 
Hieu in the Sierra Nevada range where, all the year 
long, the crevices and sunless nooks hold patches of 
snow, where the dark hemlock forests cover the moun- 
tain sides with their shad- 
ows, the Pine Grosbeak 
finds temperature, food, 
and breeding grounds ex- 
actly to his liking. Nor 
when the storms of winter 
howl through the pines 
does he go far to seek a 
warmer climate. He seems 
fairly to revel in the swirling 
clouds of snow, and, until 
driven by hunger to seek food 
lower down the mountain, 
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he will stay in his favorite 
haunts. On the edge of a — 
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snowdrift you may see him Rinuedee: 
picking up the wind-blown — «ze seems fairly to revel in the 
swirling clouds of snow.” 
seeds and frozen insect life 
that come there no man knows how. When the summer 
suns have warmed the mountains, he whistles most 
musical love songs as he frolics through the trees with 
his mate. At all times, except the few weeks of the 
breeding season, he is found in company with others 
of his kind, both male and female. Early in May the 
