[Birdtalk] GBYBC and Red-wings

[Jim & Beanie]

The last couple of years for the GBYBC I have reported 100 plus Red-winged Blackbirds.
These reports have been rejected on the  grounds that it is highly unlikely or some such nonsense.  

So what should show up today just in time for the GBYBC?  149 male Red-winged Blackbirds, and one female.  

Doesn't anyone else report balckbirds?
Have my eyes gone bad?
Can't I count?
Is this a mirage?

Weird.  As long as I can remember large numbers of Red-wings have been singing their song by the middle of February and sometimes even in January.  A few may be seen here in Cache Valley any month of the year.  Have you got RW Blackbirds?

Jim

http://donce.lofthouse.com/jamaica/winter.htm
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