{"id":19089,"date":"2013-10-07T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=19089"},"modified":"2013-10-07T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T11:38:10","slug":"yellow-headed-blackbird-displaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/yellow-headed-blackbird-displaying\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-headed Blackbird Displaying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Male Yellow-headed Blackbirds go through some pretty wild gyrations\u00a0as they display in the spring.\u00a0 This is one of their tamer poses but I liked the symmetry of the bird against the soft background.<\/p>\n

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1\/1000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s usually difficult to get a clean background like this because they typically display in a mass of cattails but this bird chose a perch right over the water with nothing else in the background.<\/p>\n

I can’t even look<\/em> at a photo of a displaying male without hearing their harsh, raucous call in my head.\u00a0 That sound has been described as “sounding like a rusty farm gate opening”.\u00a0 If you’ve never heard it (many folks in the eastern North America presumably have not) you can listen to it here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Male Yellow-headed Blackbirds go through some pretty wild gyrations as they display in the spring. This is one of their tamer poses but I liked the symmetry of the bird against the soft background.<\/p>\n

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