posted 1 year ago
Welcome, Deane! Virginia is beautiful this time of year. We have some very fat robins hopping around here in Indiana, and yesterday when I was sitting on the back porch overlooking the huge backyard, I saw a platoon of about a dozen red-winged blackbirds take over the top branches of one of my black walnut trees. Like many species, they're here before the females, scouting out the area. They come in greater numbers than the purple martins I'm also enticing to my yard with a new martin house. It was an unexpected surprise. I always loved seeing red winged blackbirds when I was a kid.
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