[wisb] Re: Red-winged Blackbird - odd behavior
- From: Karen Johnson & Jim Toth <kmjrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, chimneyswift1@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Karen and All,
I've seen this behavior all spring in my backyard! 3 Males and several females
(and now
their youngsters) have spent most of spring and now summer at my feeders high
and low.
Same Male behavior that you described on the lawn periodically.
Karen
Karen Johnson and Jim Toth
Milwaukee (SE)
BayView area
--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Karen Etter Hale <chimneyswift1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Karen Etter Hale <chimneyswift1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wisb] Red-winged Blackbird - odd behavior
To: "wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 10:15 PM
Early yesterday morning while on a walk in town, I saw an adult male
Red-winged Blackbird fly across the street from the marsh and land on a
lawn. He then spread his wings to the sides and vibrated them rapidly,
at the same time making a ticking sound. He resumed a normal posture and
started feeding on something in the lawn, then repeated the wing
vibration/ticking sound. He was showing the red and yellow of the
epaulets when doing this. Again, he resumed a normal posture and
behavior, this time making the normal shrill calls that redwings often
do. There weren't any other redwings (or other birds) close by.
Has anyone else ever seen or heard of this behavior? What was this about?
--
Karen Etter Hale
Lake Mills
NW Jefferson Co.
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