The Next Red-wings Fly-in

You can't miss the call of incoming Red-winged Blackbirds. Their loud, metallic call arrives a bit before they appear. They usually only come to our house during breeding season when they are rearing chicks over at the Greenwood Wetlands. Sometimes the females bring the juveniles over for a few days to fill up and then are gone until the next year.

Right now, the males are foraging one or two at a time. Like this gorgeous specimen that showed up today.



Not far behind was the 'scalped' bird that showed up on the 8th and I posted about here.



He seems to be healing up some. So, he seems to have survived whatever happened back then.

The two males fed for a while and then departed, leaving the backyard quiet again for the next hour or so.