Strutting Their Beauty

The past few days I’ve seen an increase in numbers of Red-winged Blackbirds coming to feed in my backyard, being all of them male! Several days have past and I haven’t seen one female yet.

All the current blackbirds look well groomed and in perfect health, they are a bunch of male in optimum condition looking for mates (I presume). These larger individual add a bit more dynamics by displaying their male calls and ritual challenges. Voicing their virility and youth versus their male competitors. The atmosphere gets charged with demonstrations of strength and saturated with testosterone actions. Low flying, fast diving pirouettes, noisy and wing flexing. Cool stuff!

12 thoughts on “Strutting Their Beauty”

kathydoremus on April 16, 2016 at 8:11 am said:

Very nice gallery.

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- avian101 on April 16, 2016 at 12:25 pm said:
  
  Thank you Kathy! 🙂
  
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susanpoozan on April 16, 2016 at 3:38 pm said:

Such decorative birds, thank you so much.

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- avian101 on April 16, 2016 at 5:22 pm said:
  
  Thanks my friend Susan! 🙂
  
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tootlepedal on April 16, 2016 at 4:25 pm said:

They are beautiful.

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- avian101 on April 16, 2016 at 5:23 pm said:
  
  Aren’t they? Thanks Tom! 🙂
  
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Aquileana on April 16, 2016 at 5:58 pm said:

Excellent macro pics, dear HJ… happy weekend to you… Love and best wishes. Aquileana 🌻🌟

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- avian101 on April 16, 2016 at 6:01 pm said:
  
  Thank you my dear friend Aquileana! Have a great weekend! Hugs! 🙂
  
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Tiny on April 16, 2016 at 11:27 pm said:

Lovely captures, H.J.! I particularly like the shot where the red is showing on both wings👏

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- avian101 on April 17, 2016 at 12:10 pm said:
  
  Thank you Tiny! I like that one too! 🙂
  
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bayphotosbydonna on April 21, 2016 at 9:00 pm said:

Beautiful series, HJ! 🙂

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- avian101 on April 21, 2016 at 10:24 pm said:
  
  Thanks a lot Donna! 🙂
  
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