A young male Redwinged Blackbird, still in all stripy plumage with no visible red on wing, sat outside the house at 730 AM running through bits and pieces of Redwinged Blackbird songs and calls. I recorded a short bit. Regular very breathy “kreeee” of the conkereee-- identifiably male blackbird--but also but also the sharp “chicks” and bits of the whistles. Resembled what you might imagine if a Brown-headed Cowbird and Redwinged Blackbird song were somehow fused.
This little guy was not in patchy black plumage, just very dark stripes, although the lighting this morning is challenging and my video clip doesn’t show the plumage well at all. But it is the first blackbird song I have heard! And the first blackbird near my feeders, though he wasn’t showing any interest. Anne -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
