tags: birds, yellow-headed blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, ornithology, Image of the Day
Okay, I have to brag a little bit. I have been invited to Manhattan, Kansas, to go birding with Dave Rintoul and his ornithology students for one week at the end of March. I am almost beside myself with excitement right now as I look through Dave's many bird images -- which remind me of my own years of springtime birding on the west coast of this country. How I miss those days, and those birds!
This is the fifth image in this series of Dave's beautiful pictures. Like with all my "life list birds", I remember exactly where I was when I first added this species to my life list!
Male yellow-headed blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, on cattail.
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah,
27 April 2005.
Image: Dave Rintoul, 2005.
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Breeding pair near Susanville, California (Eastern Sierra). In the valley south of town not too far off Highway 395. It's the very western edge of their breeding grounds.
I waited three hours to try to get a look at one of those but I "dipped out" as they say. Very nice photo-enjoy your birding trip to Kansas!
Stood about 6m away from tin of yellow paint?
Bob