{"id":49405,"date":"2017-11-12T05:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=49405"},"modified":"2021-05-10T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:24:00","slug":"female-brewers-blackbird-with-light-colored-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/11\/12\/female-brewers-blackbird-with-light-colored-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Brewer’s Blackbird With Light Colored Eyes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FemaleFemale Brewer’s Blackbird with light eyes – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2000, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Near the end of October I photographed several Brewer’s Blackbirds at Farmington Bay WMA and among them was a bird that puzzled me a bit.<\/p>\n

Within the flock of blackbirds there was a female Brewer’s Blackbird that drew my attention to her because she had light colored eyes and stood out from the other females that were nearby. I hoped that she was a Rusty Blackbird female but when I compared images, key ID features and illustrations in my field guides, birding apps and photos of female Rusty Blackbirds on line I realized that the bird I photographed was not a rare (for here) Rusty Blackbird but what I believe to be a light-eyed form Brewer’s Blackbird female.<\/p>\n

I would have loved for her to be a female Rusty Blackbird because that would have been a lifer for me but a female Brewer’s Blackbird with light eyes is fairly uncommon and I’m happy I took just a few images of her.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Brewer\u2019s Blackbird photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within the flock of blackbirds there was a female Brewer’s Blackbird that drew my attention to her because she had light colored eyes and stood out from the other females that were nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,420,1022,697,26],"tags":[4004,970,3813,3483,4338,4263,4620,4070,5426,6228],"class_list":["post-49405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-brewers-blackbirds","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-autumn","tag-blackbird","tag-blackbirds","tag-brewers-blackbird","tag-euphagus-cyanocephalus","tag-fall","tag-female","tag-light-eyes","tag-yellow-iris-color"],"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