{"id":60965,"date":"2019-10-22T05:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=60965"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:07:32","slug":"immature-male-red-winged-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/10\/22\/immature-male-red-winged-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Male Red-winged Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ImmatureImmature male Red-winged Blackbird singing from the top of a tree \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Autumn is the time of the year when Red-winged Blackbirds tend to form large flocks as they forage in fields and that gives me an opportunity to see adults and the young of the year together.<\/p>\n

I photographed this young male Red-winged Blackbird singing at the top of a Russian olive tree at Farmington Bay WMA<\/span><\/a> nine days ago.<\/p>\n

Below this bird there were more Red-winged Blackbirds, Brown Cowbirds and Brewer’s Blackbirds and a few sparrows that were tucked into the inner branches.<\/p>\n

Most of the birds were singing or calling and I realize this morning that I should have done a video to record how loud and lively it was at the time I photographed this immature male who was adding his voice to the birdy clamor.<\/p>\n

It would have been nice to share a video that captured all of the noise that these birds were making. I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I come across such a vocal flock of blackbirds!<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I photographed this young male Red-winged Blackbird singing at the top of a Russian olive tree at Farmington Bay WMA nine days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[27,1022,697,419,26],"tags":[4151,970,3813,3483,2069,4620,4067,4062,4104,4324,5577,4179,4018,4095],"class_list":["post-60965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-red-winged-blackbirds","category-utah","tag-agelaius-phoeniceus","tag-autumn","tag-blackbird","tag-blackbirds","tag-blue-sky","tag-fall","tag-immature","tag-male","tag-perched","tag-red-winged-blackbird","tag-russian-olive","tag-singing-2","tag-sky","tag-wetlands"],"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