Tag: Red-winged Blackbird

Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Black

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A selection of bird species with Black in their common English names for the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Black.

A Black Tern feeding over a roadside marsh in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Twisting and turning.

A female Blackcap feeding on a windfall apple in the winter in Cheshire, England. Female Blackcaps have brown caps.

Wintering female Blackcap.

A male Yellow-headed Blackbird displaying in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Yellow-headed Blackbird male displaying.

A male Common Blackbird eating a windfall apple in the winter in Cheshire, England.

Male Eurasian Blackbird.

A male Black-throated Blue Warbler pretending it’s an Oriole by eating the grape jelly in an Oriole feeder. Ontario, Canada.

Male Black-throated Blue Warbler.

A male Red-winged Blackbird proclaiming its territory in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Male Red-winged Blackbird.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: An Anime-Ted Life!

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This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: An Anime-Ted Life!

My first thought was animated wildlife, that is wildlife doing something. The first couple of photos I picked for the challenge were bird species from Saskatchewan so I decided to restrict my selection to birds photographed in Saskatchewan.

A male Ruddy Duck displays to a female.

Male Ruddy Duck bubbling at female.

A preening Marbled Godwit.

Preening Marbled Godwit.

A Killdeer having a good stretch.

Stretching Killdeer.

A singing male Red-winged Blackbird.

Male Red-winged Blackbird.

A Black Tern feeding over a roadside marsh.

Feeding Black Tern.

 

Singing male Red-winged Blackbird.

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Throwback Thursday travels back to Saskatchewan in the 1990s. With no sign of spring arriving in Ontario I thought a spring photo of a species that arrives in Canada for the summer would be nicer than another photo of snow and ice.

This male Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) has recently arrived in Saskatchewan to spend the summer and is singing to establish a breeding territory. I’ve always liked the backlighting on the bird that’s illuminating the red epaulettes that give the male birds their name.

Backlit male Red-winged Blackbird proclaiming its territory.