Male Yellow-headed Blackbird displaying
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 than I normally do while looking for Short-eared Owls in northern Utah.
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.
Listen to a male Yellow-headed Blackbird here.
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.
Life is good.
Mia
Click here to see more of my Yellow-headed Blackbird photos plus facts and information about this species.
An attention getting ‘song’ for a beautiful bird. Thanks Mia.
Mia… adding the “call” to the post is a really nice thing to do…
Thanks for going to the effort to make that happen. Great
photos, plus bird calls… yes, “life is good.” ;-)))
I can barely imagineca flock of these striking birds…we don’t see these beautiful birds in the East…
Roger is right…on all counts….
Beautiful photo Mia.