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Here Birdie! A Different Approach…

Please, please…NO MORE RAIN!!

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Bird’s ID – Red-winged Blackbird

Red-winged Blackbird

The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States. Claims have been made that it is the most abundant living land bird in North America, as bird-counting censuses of wintering red-winged blackbirds sometimes show that loose flocks can number in excess of a million birds per flock and the full number of breeding pairs across North and Central America may exceed 250 million in peak years.

Top photo of the female RWB and bottom photo of the male counterpart.

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What’s Up? Some Changes…

Some Changes…

To ALL my dear friends. Today, as you have obviously noticed, there is a great change done to my blog’s theme. I hope that you’ll get to like it.

The decision to make this change has several reasons. I want to give more to my readers in the form of better photography, I will pick my best photos from my ample archives and present them to you.

There’s another change, I will post only 4 days per week. I’ve picked the following days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturdays.

The reason I decided for posting less days is mainly that I’ve been doing too many things in a daily basis for so long that I need to slow down a bit and have time for my obligations. as I explained previously, Photography and the Birds are my hobby, not my profession but I’ll manage the situation if I have a few free days weekly.

I love whatever I do, if I didn’t I wouldn’t do it!.

I’m counting on your cooperation in a way of any suggestions or your honest comments about my new changes. I thank you sincerely in advance for your help. ~ H.J.

Photo Gallery

European Starling feeding its new fledgeling, the little chick is demanding for food impatiently! I commend the parent for the job well done. What do you think?

This is my son Tyler, at a Library Show about birds. He was happy to be in touch with exotic birds. He got along well with these birds ( See the one nibbling his ear) Tyler didn’t mind at all. What do you think?