First photos of Yellow Head black birds

This is the first photo I have ever been able to obtain of a yellow headed blackbird. Fortunately I was able to capture two in one of our spruce trees. This is the first I have ever seen them come to the feeder. I guess there is not much to eat in the sloughs at the moment. The yellow heads are much less common than the red-wings.

Little blue heron..?

We drove all the way to Regina and back. I did not see any new birds until we were just about twenty miles from home where I saw a heron in a large slough by the side of the road. I think it was a little blue heron but perhaps it was a green heron. The photo is of a little blue heron taken from the internet.

There were plenty of crows along the way, oodles of red-winged blackbirds, and also one yellow headed blackbird. The latter seem to be rather scarce the last few years.

Yellowheaded blackbirds

On the way back from Brandon today we saw several yellow-headed blackbirds. These are the first I have seen this year. We saw them in two different locations. We saw two south of Newdale and another one just north of Shoal Lake. The yellow-headed blackbirds are much scarcer than the common red-wings. The latter inhabit almost every slough in our area.

Trip to Regina

We went to Regina for the Canada Day weekend but came back this evening (Sunday). I thought of taking the baby crow in our yard. But the parents seemed to be taking care of it again so I left it. On our return it was not to be found. It is either gone to a better hiding place or gone in some cat's belly! I doubt it could have survived long enough to be able to fly. I should have taken some pics of it.

On the trip we did not see many new birds. I did see several killdeers along the roadside. At Wascana Lake there were plenty of Canada geese and ducklings mostly mallards. On the way home I saw my first yellow-headed blackbird of the year just east of Regina. I haven't seen a single one near Oakburn.

The feeder was empty when we arrived back. The seed was mostly just dumped on the ground. Some birds just love to scratch it out particularly the young house sparrows. We still have plenty of pine siskins about, chippings sparrows and many house sparrows the last while.