Or you could call them by their name, red-winged blackbirds. With shiny black feathers and a red badge on each shoulder, male red-wings migrate back to our area early each spring, intent on ...

Red-winged blackbirds vexed me when I first started birding. Not the males. They’re easy. They have that sleek all-black ...

Sometimes I like to nerd out on a specific bird. The challenge is to learn something new, and I always do. Today's focus is the red-winged blackbird, a perfectly named harbinger of spring in ...

Incongruous as it may sound, red-winged blackbirds are a highly social species, and spend much of their lives in flocks. ... becoming what we might call "yellow-slivered blackbirds." ...

The red-winged blackbirds are trilling like crazy — especially in the mornings, ... To register, email Jess at [email protected] or call 920-793-4007.

A red-winged blackbird calls to other birds in Holland, Michigan in May 2020. Joel Bissell If you’d like to go looking for these harbingers of a new season, know that they’re pretty easy to ...

Then, on March 1, I awake to the sound of red-winged blackbirds, twee-ing and twee-ing as they greet the dawn. Yes! Red-wings are true harbingers of spring. In years past, we’ve had them arrive as ...

A red-winged blackbird calls to other birds in Holland, Michigan on Saturday, May 9, 2020. ... By mid-March they can be seen and heard, calling out from trees and cattails at local wetlands, ...

Red-winged blackbirds have been terrorizing unsuspecting walkers at the Lakefill throughout the spring and summer, swooping down on them, squawking in their ears and flying into their hair.

As I am writing this column on March 22, my weather radio is going off telling me of winter storm warnings for northern Wisconsin. They are calling for 6-8 inches of snow, which will be on top of ...

The red-winged blackbird is a perfectly named harbinger of spring in northern Illinois. The glossy-black males with scarlet shoulder patches are now returning from the southern U.S., establishing ...