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Red-winged Blackbird
These birds show up here only briefly in the late spring, perhaps for two or three weeks. Mostly they perch in the high grass, where you can hear their rusty-gate "song" but you can't see them. There are a few high points in the meadow, close enough to the trail, where they perch so that you can see them. But even then, they are so totally and consistently black -- eyes, beak and most of the plumage -- except for those amazing red shoulders that all you see is a featureless black silhouette and two patches of burnt out glowing flame.
Green-Winged Teal © Jane Baryames. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on April 3, 2021.
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) along Beaver Pond Trail in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Photographed on 17 June 2010.
The winged sumac looks similar to the smooth sumac until you get closer and see the wings on the branches. The fall color is always great. This was taken by the hiking trails at Smithville Lake, Missouri.
White-winged Crossbills have moved south in tremendous numbers this winter throughout the upper midwest. So far in Michigan, I've found them at 6 locations in southeast MI. However, today was special since we had 26 visit our neighborhood, trees, and even land on our roof in Dearborn.
Crispy the duck now has free run of the garden during the day. Today there was a lot of time spent exploring new things, and testing wings for flying.
All photos are © Alexandra Bone
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As I was birding, this Broad-winged Hawk flew overhead and was chased out of the neighborhood by an angry kingbird.
These are nesting at the north treatment in Memphis, Tennessee. I counted at least four sets of these birds.
Blue-Winged Teal © Jane Baryames. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on May 1, 2021.
Red-Winged Blackbird © Steve Frye. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders of Boulder Walk on January 16, 2021.
a red-winged blackbird lets us know just how unhappy he is with us gardening and kite flying on his turf.
at least he didn't dive bomb us. yet.
The Sculpture Build-off at CCC this weekend showed some amazing welded works of art in progress. Must go back tomorrow afternoon to see the final results of this wing.
Cobalt-winged Parakeet - Brotogeris cyanoptera gustavi - Синекрылая катита
Huallaga River, Tarapoto, San Martín Region, Peru, 02/20/2018
The black-winged kite (Elanus caeruleus) is a small diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae best known for its habit of hovering over open grasslands in the manner of the much smaller kestrels. This Eurasian and African species was sometimes combined with the Australian black-shouldered kite (Elanus axillaris) and the white-tailed kite (Elanus leucurus) of North and South America which together form a superspecies. This kite is distinctive, with long-wings, white, grey and black plumage and owl like forward-facing eyes with red irises. Although mainly seen on the plains, they are sometimes seen on grassy slopes of hills in the higher elevation regions of Asia. They are not migratory, but make short-distance movements in response to weather.
This long-winged raptor is predominantly grey or white with black shoulder patches, wing tips and eye stripe. The long falcon-like wings extend beyond the tail when the bird is perched. In flight, the short and square tail is visible and it is not forked as in the typical kites of the genus Milvus. When perched, often on roadside wires, it often adjusts its wings and jerks its tail up and down as if to balance itself. The sexes are alike in plumage. Their large forward-facing eyes and velvety plumage are characters that are shared with owls and the genus itself has been considered as a basal group within the Accipitridae.
The black-winged kite is a species primarily of open land and semi-deserts in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia, but it has a foothold within Europe in Spain and Portugal. The species range appears to be expanding in southern Europe and possibly in West Asia.
Their prey includes grasshoppers, crickets and other large insects, lizards and rodents. Injured birds, small snakes and frogs have also been reported. The black-winged kite flies slowly during hunting like a harrier, but it will also hover like a Kestrel. It has on rare occasions been known to hunt prey in flight. Perches are used for hunting and for feeding but large prey may sometimes be handled on the ground.