Red Winged Blackbird at the Bosque

[mrsisu]

Just back from a trip to the Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife refuge in San Antonio New Mexico. While not as many birds there yet got in lots of photography and some I hope unique shots. Here is one of a singe red winged blackbird (I think) landing into a group of red winged and yellow headed blackbirds and probably some other small birds as well. There was a large group of blackbirds swirling around in mass periodically as they ate, flew up and and so forth. Taken from quite a distance with a Nikon 200-400 with a 1.4 tele extender. This part of the image result of a major crop. The image not as good as the original tiff as a lot lost in the reduction process it seems.

[rpk717]

Interesting shot Don, looks like a Red-winged to me as I see a tad of red on the wing. The Yellow-headed blackbirds were one of my targets when I was there, never got a decent shot of one though.:(

[ropawi]

Nice action.:)