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Red-Winged Blackbird
CalvinFold

Red-Winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Taken near the Sundial Bridge (Redding, CA, USA).

You could say this is a "new" one for me. We have scores of Red-Winged Blackbirds near where I live (San Leandro, CA, USA), but they are apparently a population of "bicolor blackbirds" ([I]A. p. gubernator[/I]) because they are all but missing the yellow stripe.

So when my girlfriend took photos in Yreka, CA and I took these on our vacation in Redding and I saw the yellow I really was wow'd.

Odd, eh?

After all that is said, blackbirds are tough to get good photos of with my camera, so I was still quite pleased with this one.
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Location
Redding, CA, USA
Date taken
1/12/2017
Scientific name
Agelaius phoeniceus
Equipment used
Canon SX60
Stanley Jones
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Well done Kevin, I think Blackbirds are hard to get good photographs with any camera (lol). Excellent work!!!
 

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