Red Wing Blackbirds

red wing blackbirds
Originally uploaded by I_N

How do I know what kind of bird those black blurry shapes are? I walk the same area of land about every other day, and in the days preceding this shot, the trees were gradually filling up with a noisy flock of black birds, not starlings, not grackles, but red wing black birds. Usually they congregate in smaller groups and head south and spend the winter in big flocks. But this year has been warm, and the big flock seems to have been forming up here. When this image was shot the birds might
have been testing the waters, and small groups would break away and do a fly around. Today, November 22, I think they have all gone.