{"id":1854,"date":"2011-06-09T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2011-06-09T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T02:48:14","slug":"red%e2%80%93winged-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Red\u2013winged Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red\u2013winged Blackbird is one of the most numerous birds in North America. Gary Davidson\u2019s <em>Checklist of West Kootenay Birds<\/em> lists it as common in the spring and summer. Yet, I never see it\u2014or at least, I never see it near my home.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, apparently, is that the Red\u2013winged Blackbird prefers marshes (such as found at each end of the Main Lake) while I live on fairly well drained land (along the West Arm). However, as the pictures below reveal, even a short visit to the bird\u2019s preferred habitat provides a cornucopia of sightings and pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The male Red-winged Blackbird is hard to mistake. It is glossy black\u00a0with red\u2013and\u2013yellow shoulder badges.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1855\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redwingedblackbird110531as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It spends a great deal of time on highly visible perches, belting out its distinctive song.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1856\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redwingedblackbird110531bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then it will fly to a nearby perch and start again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1858\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redwingedblackbird110531b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the first-summer\u2019s male has yet to acquire the distinctive red.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1859\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redwingedblackbird1Sum110531s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the female is more camouflaged and tries to stay out of sight.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1860\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/redwingedblackbirdF110531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red\u2013winged Blackbird is one of the most numerous birds in North America. Gary Davidson\u2019s Checklist of West Kootenay Birds lists it as common in the spring and summer. Yet, I never see it\u2014or at least, I never see it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}