Tag: Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

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1/250th sec.

I find this photo a little odd. In some ways it looks weirdly contrived, like a product of someone’s clumsy photoshopping. But that fast shutter click caught a tiny slice of time that the human eye can’t register. Maybe this is what birds in startled flight always look like, but we just can’t see. The only adjustments I made were a crop and a border and a small exposure correction. This is the camera’s photo, since I didn’t really know what I was seeing. All I did was point and shoot.

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Murmuration.

Yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) at the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area near McNeal, Arizona.  

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Back to the draw.

Yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) at the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area near McNeal, Arizona.  

Yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) at the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area near McNeal, Arizona.  

Yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) settling in the bulrushes where they will roost overnight. I estimated the flock at about 2000 birds. At the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area near McNeal, Arizona.