Red-winged Blackbirds have arrived in southern Ontario...

                                                                     Photo by BarrytheBirder

Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoenicues) are one of the first birds to migrate north into southern Ontario in the spring.   As seen in one of my file photos above, taken just north of Toronto, above Lake Ontario, they will use winter/spring bird feeders to fill themselves up.   They will also forage in surrounding moist fields, orchards and parks.   Its song is a liquid, gurgling 'konk-la-reee' ending in a trill...not particularly melodious, but distinctive.

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BarrytheBirder