Friday, February 8, 2013

Rusty Blackbird in the yard




      Took a little time to cool off and do some birding after shoveling the driveway,sidewalk and patio this morning.  I was hoping to get some shots of the Chipping Sparrow ( that has been visiting my feeders since Sunday) posed on some snow covered foliage.  The Chipper never landed on the snow covered parts of the bushes so all I got were photos of it on the ground.  While sitting behind my camera waiting for the sparrow to cooperate, I heard a different bird up in the Sycamore tree.  It turned out to be a Rusty Blackbird.  It's only my second Rusty Blackbird sighting in my yard, the first was of three birds flying over with a group of Red-Winged Blackbirds during migration last October.



Rusty Blackbird


Chipping Sparrow stil hanging around


Dark-eyed Junco


Northern Cardinal
    Hopefully the Chipping Sparrow will hang around until next weekend for the Great Backyard Bird Count.  Here is a link to the GBBC website http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc   .



2 comments:

  1. Hi Mark, hope all is well!

    I have had an odd duck in my backyard twice (that I know of) this year
    http://tinyurl.com/bcfx283

    See you in September,
    Greg in Lansing

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  2. Hey Greg, That Junco would have had me flipping through some books.

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