I haven’t seen any of these fine beasties in the city before. And I’m pretty sure this flock wandered into the city quite recently, because they’re very skittish about people. Whenever I even got near their tree they fled.
More cats soon… Autumn got some kitty pictures for me, but I haven’t managed to get them from her yet.
I never realized until recently that red-winged blackbirds are one of the most common birds in North America.
Apparently these guys are a local-ish sub-species, the bi-colored red-winged blackbird (agelaius phoeniceus gubernator). The regular red-winged blackbird has a yellow stripe above the red, easily visible when they’re flying; these guys didn’t.