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Upgrade NowWe've had a Mandarin duck hanging out along lake Michigan in Milwaukee for the last few weeks. An escapee, no doubt, but still a beautiful bird!View attachment 563401
I officiated a funeral today. As we pulled into the cemetery, there was a hawk in the middle of the driveway with a grey squirrel in his talons. He stared at our car while he decided if he needed to move out of the way. He did, but while the squirrel was alive, he was already crippled enough that he didn't look like he was going to get too far before the hawk returned.
Imagine a restaurant menu listing “Osprey-caught salmon”. Might be worth a windshield!… "My windshield got cracked by a salmon" is one that doesn't come up every day in the insurance biz.
I led a team to build and install nesting boxes for those little guys for my Eagle project. They ended up getting a few families and 1 even was home to a beehive.
While we were dating the former Mrs came to my parents home. We had hundreds of red wing black birds around at the time. She inquired "What is the black bird with the red wings?" I told her it is a "Red winged black bird!" She just glared at at me....I told her, "No! That is what it is really called! I didn't know the scientific name, (still don't!)Yup, RWB!
Here are some more of them from our back yard last spring.
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Blue or Indigo Bunting. I'm not sure what the difference is.
Red winged blackbirds have a unique song. It always reminds me of fishing in the creek near where I grew up in northern NY state. Now that I'm in the Southwest, I haven't seen many. They seem to like the river environment... I've heard them near the Rio Grande while camping.Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius poeniceus. iBird PRO is your friend....
Redwings are one of two birds that I usually hear before I see. The other is the belted kingfisher, which has a distinctive chittering call as it's flying.Red winged blackbirds have a unique song. It always reminds me of fishing in the creek near where I grew up in northern NY state. Now that I'm in the Southwest, I haven't seen many. They seem to like the river environment... I've heard them near the Rio Grande while camping.
We have Steller's jays (with the crest) and more recently scrub jays that are pretty blue. They're hard to get pictures of though.
Yup, RWB!
Here are some more of them from our back yard last spring.
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