I’m away from home and my photo collection, but Stephen Barnard sent some photos from Idaho yesterday, so we’re set for today:
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus):
This is a more typical RWB (Red-winged Blackbird) photo. A male is staking out his territory, showing his colors, giving his raucous cry, and challenging all comers. Conflicts are surprisingly few.
Cinnamon Teal drake (Anas cyanoptera) showing off for the ladies.
Red-Wings are a sure sign of spring. What show-offs.
And on m’stroll every morning in to work along the pastoral trail of Sycamore Row (www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2014/10/02/sycamore), the red – wings — of this specific space — are such covetous dive – bombers !
My head hasn’t actually been struck … … but nearly so !
Blue
That’s a beautiful campus. It must be a delightful walk, in spite of the strafing.
Ya’ know, if my retiring within the next years’ time becomes possible at all ? Then the award – winning landscape (several times over / http://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2013/09/26/catalpa) of this particular Campus is what I shall miss. For not much else shall I yearn but the daily walks in to and back from work !
I may just … … continue these anyhow ! (q morning @ 6am right @ the very western end of Sycamore Row, there happens to be inside the building right there a many decades’ long gym clinic within the University’s Kinesiology Department. Specifically for retirees !)
Rock on in, exercise, stroll back out ! = a plan, not ? !
Blue
ps From the last quarter century’s observation, I am thinking that the students upon this Campus today, very very / too many of them snowflakes, do not have the appreciation of / are not brain – equipped to even internalize thus: the beauteousness here with which they are graced !
I know we elders think and say this exact deal — of every of the next several generations to follow us. So ya’ know ? I give up. I shall appreciate it — and to hell with caring at all … … if they do.
Well, the snowflakes have there long lives ahead of them. There’s hope.
Very good. Taking a picture of a redwing in flight must be pretty challenging.
Wonderful photos! I look forward to hearing the first “click, whirrrr” of red-wing blackbirds every spring. 🙂
Stunning photos — thanks!!!
Wow that blackbird is a beautiful creature!
Great photos- especially like the drinking Red-winged blackbird with reflection.
David Francey wrote a nice song about redwings – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGwp7578FaU&nohtml5=False
Nice photographs. The Red Wing Blackbird reminded me very much of our Tui and the way you decribed how it behaves. Thanks.
Great photos: Especially the RWBB calling. Lovely.