Subject: Blackbird flocks
Date: Aug 28 13:55:49 2003
From: Kelly Cassidy - lostriver at completebbs.com


I saw one of those orange-y RW blackbirds on a phone line a couple weeks
ago. I spent quite some time looking at it before it flew off and I decided
I couldn't turn it into a rarity.

Kelly Cassidy

> plumage I haven't observed before, the juvenal male plumage: similar to
the
> streaked brown of females, but with dull orange wing patches and with
orange
> edges on many feathers, mostly the secondaries and scapulars. I just
> checked Bent (L.H. of Blackbirds, Orioles, ..., p. 135), where an old
> description by Dwight, from 1900, confirms that that's what they are.
Seems
> odd that I've not observed it before; ...

> Burt Guttman guttmanb at evergreen.edu