This week has been fun for watching returning migrants. One morning there’s the usual winter birds and then the next morning you hear a robin on territory (had our first one singing outside of the apartment today). I went to Carver Park this morning before work and a flock of red-winged blackbird males were lurking in a cedar tree working on their song.
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Hi Sharon. I live up by St. Cloud, MN and have been a reader ever since I found your blog about six months ago. I decided to unlurk and say Hi when I was reading the latest Birds and Blooms today and saw you featured. I’m looking forward to your articles! Just saw my first robin of the season a couple days ago and am excited that the red-winged blackbirds are on their way here!
Hi Linda,
Thanks for checking the blog. I was honored to have a little something in Birds and Blooms. I hope it leads to more.
I long associated a song I heard in the marshes as the Red Wing… only in recent years did I finally hear it away from water and realize it wasn’t the blackbird – that it was the song sparrow.
Never too old to learn something!
Great video! I think I had a female Red-winged at the feeder today in Kansas.
I live in the Sacramento Valley and was concerned at not seeing as many red wing blackbirds out here so your video was great to see. I am totally new to birding I can just about now tell ducks from Robins but I love your site. Thanks, Kris
Gosh, I love those guys. They’re here year ’round and their song is one of my all-time favorites. Great video!
Happy to see the redwings return to the north. Living in Las Vegas, we used to get them for short period in the fall and spring. This winter they stayed all winter and spent much time at our feeders, shoving the finches and sparrows away. I grew up in Nebraska and South Dakota and enjoyed their songs, but a whole flock in a small backyard gets a bit tiresome after a while.
And I thought all the Red-winged Blackbirds in the world were in my Rio Grande Valley backyard!! They are eating us out of house and home but they are definitely the sound of Spring.
(I just found your blog and love it! I’ll return.)
Kay
Hi Linda,
I was reading birds and Blooms when I saw how much you love Baltimore Orioles.. Guess what, I have a female, Baltimore Oriole, sitting on my arm while I’m on the computer.
Chipper has been a member of our family for 8 years. She was knocked out of her nest by a Blue Jay and almost eaten alive. My husband came in the house with a little tiny featherless bird. We had no idea what it was other than a baby bird. We nursed her to good health by feeding her egg yolk and cheerios oh, and Italian tuna. She thrived and at 8 years old she is 1/2 bbird and 1/2 human. She could never survive in the wild.
Linda