Feeding Wild Birds

[R2elk]

The grackles showed up and the hawk left.

 

[R2elk]

The Yellow heads showed up yesterday.

 

[R2elk]

The meadowlarks have been here for awhile.

 

[R2elk]

I saw a Northern Shrike today.

 

[sourland]

The Yellow heads showed up yesterday.

We don't have yellow heads. I've never seen one. Are the females colored the same as the males ?

 

[R2elk]

We don't have yellow heads. I've never seen one. Are the females colored the same as the males ?

No. I will try to dig up an old pic. I really need to get an audio recording. Their call is unique.

I never saw one until I moved here. The same goes for Lark Buntings.

 

[R2elk]

Female Yellow-headed Blackbird

 

[sourland]

Female Yellow-headed Blackbird
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Thanks.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

We don't have yellow heads. I've never seen one. Are the females colored the same as the males ?

Same here. Never saw one before.

 

[R2elk]

"Yellow-headed blackbirds can generally be found from the Mississippi River westward. They spend the summer in the west-central United States and Canada and the winter in the western United States from California to Texas and south to Mexico and Central America."