What a treat! I never have photographed a female red winged blackbird. The males are at our feeder everyday and they are super easy to identify. being black with a tad of red/sometimes yellow on their wing, but, who would have guessed this is the female?
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"I look for the very heavily streaked breast, that giganto bill and often times the orangey-red feathers near the bill to help me differentiate them from a sparrow if I don't have a frame of reference for size or that unmistakable call.
