Juvenile Pine Grosbeak. (Wren Gilgan photo/Lakes District News)

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This juvenile Pine Grosbeak certainly found something interesting and turned back his head to look, when local Wren Gilgan captured this photo. (Wren Gilgan photo/Lakes District News)

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