Red-winged Blackbird
The Red-winged Blackbird is medium size bird with black shiny feathers covering its body and has a bar of yellow color on the wings combined with crescents of bright red feathers on part shoulder and part underwing.
They are moderately aggressive and gobble seeds with frenzy and desperation, which is typical to blackbirds.
It’s funny that all I’ve seen is only male Red-winged Blackbirds. Are they short of gals?
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Text and photographs are © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101
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Chipping Sparrow Trilling – Video
This is a wonderful video courtesy of © Lang Elliott
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Cooper’s Hawk
I’m so glad that different species of birds are showing up in my backyard. The one I photographed yesterday was a bonus because I was done for the day with my camera equipment such as my tripod, lenses, camera etc. I put everything away. When of a sudden this Cooper’s Hawk I see it standing on my deck railing it was definitely a surprise. Grabbed my camera, changed lenses, made adjustments and started shooting. I shot a whole series of pictures. Until it flew to several locations and the disappeared from my sight. This morning I went down there to the creek and found a bunch of feathers, seems like the victim was a Mourning Dove.
Cooper's Hawk
Text and photographs © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101
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European Starling
My backyard was visited by some European Starlings and at least 2 of them might build a nest nearby. I saw on of them picking dry leaves.
These birds are experts insects and bugs hunters. Their sense of hearing must be extremely acute because they walk fast and then poke their pointy bills deep in the ground and grab a worm, spider, grasshopper, grub, larvae etc. I have my doubts that the see the the prey being the grass thick and of course the fact that the bugs a hiding in the ground because there’s danger nearby. I get the impression that they never fail, every time they poke the ground they come out with a different bug.
This E. Starling is carrying leaves
Text and photographs © H.J. Ruiz – Avian 101
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