(Red-winged Blackbird - photo by Neil Barker - April 20, 2024)
For him: crisp colours of black, red, and gold displaying boldly.
For her: elegant colours of black, chestnut, and smoky grey.
Both endowed with the perfection of Nature for all to see.
The photos of the male Red-winged Blackbird are from April 20, 2024 and the photos of the female Red-winged Blackbird are from a week earlier on April 14, 2024.
I was surprised to see this female Red-winged Blackbird. She was the first female Red-winged Blackbird I had seen this Spring. I was not expecting them this early. There should be more of female Red-winged Blackbirds arriving in the coming weeks.
posted recently about an excellent resource for us birders here in North America: BirdCast. It is such a great resource for tracking the migratory traffic volume of birds. Here is a a screenshot from April 23, 2024:I am in Ottawa Ontario Canada, 90 minutes north of Ogdensburg New York which is near the US-Canadian border. From that screenshot, I follow the activity on that top right section with the blue shading in upstate New York. For those of you elsewhere in the United States and Canada - which areas do you follow?
Hat-tip to
at and his recent post:
Beautiful!
I love these beautiful beings and recently learned that for millennia the Ojibwe people call them asiginaak. I love the poetry that word fills my mind with.