{"id":41972,"date":"2016-09-15T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=41972"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:16:32","slug":"male-yellow-headed-blackbird-displaying-at-bear-river-mbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/09\/15\/male-yellow-headed-blackbird-displaying-at-bear-river-mbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Yellow-headed Blackbird Displaying at Bear River MBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MaleMale Yellow-headed Blackbird displaying<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t take many photos of Yellow-headed Blackbirds this summer because I spent more time away from the marshes at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge<\/span><\/a> than I normally do while looking for Short-eared Owls in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

When I photographed this male Yellow-headed Blackbird displaying at Bear River MBR it was a beautiful May morning and all the birds there were singing. The calls of male Yellow-headed Blackbirds are not what I would call beautiful but the females seem beguiled by them.<\/p>\n

Listen to a male Yellow-headed Blackbird here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The blackbirds here in Utah are now forming large mixed flocks at this time of the year and it won’t be long before the Yellow-headed Blackbirds will migrate to the south for the winter. Next year I need to focus on these birds more than I did this breeding season. They really are beautiful.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Yellow-headed Blackbird photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I photographed this male Yellow-headed Blackbird displaying at Bear River MBR it was a beautiful May morning and all the birds there were singing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,27,1148,26,427],"tags":[4004,3813,3483,2304,4966,2158,779,4062,4348,5418,4178,1386],"class_list":["post-41972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-utah","category-yellow-headed-blackbird","tag-adult","tag-blackbird","tag-blackbirds","tag-calls","tag-cattail","tag-courtship-display","tag-displaying","tag-male","tag-mating-display","tag-territorial-behavior","tag-xanthocephalus-xanthocephalus","tag-yellow-headed-blackbird"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t