365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Cock Of The Walk
Day 172: This Red-Winged Blackbird deserves having his photo used as today's feature. I'd been perched at the open window for half an hour, patiently and vainly waiting for a Varied Thrush to decide there was something worth inspecting which was not in the deep shadows under the contorted filbert while Mr. Blackbird kept pacing back and forth, as if to say, "Well, I'm here. Aren't I pretty enough?" Just to have something to do, I snapped a few pictures, not really expecting him to be quite so photogenic. I never got a clear shot of the thrush (for some reason, they are a difficult species for me despite being fairly common), but I am certainly not disappointed with this cute and cocky pose.
Labels:
Agelaius phoeniceus,
birding,
Red-winged Blackbird,
yard
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