A common blackbird ?

[llh 2]

I am not sure about this bird.  It is a solitary bird that shows up at the feeder area every day.  There is a flock of redwing blackbirds that come in everyday but this one is by himself.

This is in Bishop, CA in the hight desert.  

[Seanbirds 448]

This is a Red-winged Blackbird.

[Kevin 3,386]

How are we ruling out Tricolored?

Edited November 24, 2020 by Kevin

[Seanbirds 448]

On 11/24/2020 at 11:14 AM, Kevin said:

How are we ruling out Tricolored?

Range, mainly.

[urban snipe 31]

When I first looked at it I thought it was a black rail but I think you guys are right about red wing

[Charlie Spencer 3,131]

On 11/22/2020 at 11:54 AM, llh said:

This is in Bishop, CA in the hight desert.

 

47 minutes ago, urban snipe said:

When I first looked at it I thought it was a black rail but I think you guys are right about red wing

The desert is the wrong environment for any rail.

[DLecy 300]

1 hour ago, urban snipe said:

When I first looked at it I thought it was a black rail.

Aside from the fact that this birds structure is all blackbird, there are people who bird for 40 years and are lucky if they see a Black Rail once. 99 times out of 100, you hear a BLRA. They are very skulky birds who are subject to predation by a variety of different birds and mammals, so to see one out in the open like that eating seed on the ground is the entirely wrong behavior for BLRA. 

[Connor Cochrane 2,151]

13 minutes ago, DLecy said:

Aside from the fact that this birds structure is all blackbird, there are people who bird for 40 years and are lucky if they see a Black Rail once. 99 times out of 100, you hear a BLRA. They are very skulky birds who are subject to predation by a variety of different birds and mammals, so to see one out in the open like that eating seed on the ground is the entirely wrong behavior for BLRA. 

Very True. I've only seen Black Rail twice, and both were quick glimpses of it running between the marsh, and mostly only seeing the reeds moving. 

[urban snipe 31]

22 hours ago, DLecy said:

Aside from the fact that this birds structure is all blackbird, there are people who bird for 40 years and are lucky if they see a Black Rail once. 99 times out of 100, you hear a BLRA. They are very skulky birds who are subject to predation by a variety of different birds and mammals, so to see one out in the open like that eating seed on the ground is the entirely wrong behavior for BLRA. 

I know it's not a black rail that's just what it first looked like