On Sunday, July 15, we had a small group over for snacks and drinks.  On one of my repeated tripos to the kitchen I glanced out the window and saw a Black-headed grosbeak in the watercourse, not far out the kitchen window.  The casement window was cranked open a small amount, but not enough for a photo.  I opened the window slightly farther and then ran for my camera.  I managed to take a few photos before the bird left.  Later it and another returned to the yard (one in the watercourse and one on a small  platform feeder) and I obtained a few more photos.

For about the last three weeks the male grosbeaks have visited the yard but they generally leave fairly quickly and without accessing either the watercourse or the feeders, although this past week I did see a male clinging from one of our inverted suet feeders.  So it was nice to get the photos of this grosbeak, which I believe to be a female.