Female RED WINGED BLACKBIRD in with about 10 males in my yard.
Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY
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Ann Raffetto's Red-winged Blackbird in East Varick on 15 Feb was the first in
the basin this year of which I was aware. I think I saw it in eBird because of
the Great Backyard Bird Count. I don't know if Project Feederwatch records are
searchable for this purpose. Now that I know the bird was
I don't recall any reports of female REDWINGED BLACK BIRDs this spring.
Maybe it is just a memory problem on my part. Or maybe nobody finds them
worth reporting. The reason for my interest at this time is that we just had
one at our feeders. There have been one or more males around the yard. But
I have seen them here and there for at least two weeks if not longer,
although there definitely seem to be more around this week than before.
Below-species distinctions like that do often get lost, both on the
listservs and in eBird, but are, in my opinion and as you suggest, worth
keeping track
We participate in Project FeederWatch and we had a female RWBL on our 2/8 and
2/15 counts in East Varick, about 20 miles north of T-burg.
Ann
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I have a couple *female* RWBB at my feeders as well as about 10 WT
Sparrows who have been hanging around the past week. I am in the hills
above Candor.
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I saw my first female RWBB yesterday at Boland Pond near Binghamton.
Stephen R Hill
Johnson CIty, NY
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