Trilling me softly with his song. #Wordless Wednesday #Red-winged Blackbird

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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38 Responses to Trilling me softly with his song. #Wordless Wednesday #Red-winged Blackbird

  2. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com's avatar Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    October 11, 2023 at 11:52 am

    Beautiful bird… one that we don’t have where I live.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 11, 2023 at 6:56 pm

      I love their vibrant colors Janis. This is the male; the female is a drab mottled brown color. When the male sings he often puffs out his chest, raises his shoulders and those colors look like epaulets.

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  3. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    October 11, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    Your title made me smile. 🙂 I enjoy seeing these birds along the levee.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 11, 2023 at 7:19 pm

      I thought I’d borrow that old song title Rebecca. 🙂 I enjoy seeing them too, especially in Spring. They return to oure marshes before any of the other migrating birds and sometimes they are singing and it’s so cold that condensation is coming from their beaks. They enjoy scamming peanuts that I put down for the squirrels and birds and are pretty bold in doing so.

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  4. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    October 11, 2023 at 5:39 pm

    He seems to be saying, “Don’t be giving me any FLACK now, ya hear?”

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 11, 2023 at 7:31 pm

      Ha ha – yes he does seem to be saying that Dave and to be honest, he was not trilling softly by any means. His song was loud! Glad you remembered the song too. Like your comment about the 45s and cassettes, I wondered just how may people would remember the song and the singer.

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  5. TD's avatar TD says:
    October 11, 2023 at 7:13 pm

    I see the Red-winged Blackbirds during migration.

    I don’t know where they come from…
    or where they might be going to… although I do enjoy their song…
    as they fly through…
    🎶🎵🎶🎵

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 11, 2023 at 7:36 pm

      Our Red-winged Blackbirds are gone now TD, but it’s always a welcome sign to see and hear them around mid-March when they return to the marshes, including the marshy areas of Council Point Park. They are the first of the migrating birds to return to Michigan. Sometimes it is so cold, they are singing and frosty breath is coming from their beaks. It used to be people got excited to see the first Robin(s), but the Robins now stick around all Winter. Somewhere I have a photo of a Robin on a snowy branch with berries in mid-Winter.

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  6. AnnMarie R stevens's avatar AnnMarie R stevens says:
    October 11, 2023 at 9:34 pm

    Miss Linda……………………………………………..this Red-Winged black bird……………………………is saying: “Watch Out This is My territory”……………………………………Since our apartments run along side very near I-75………………………………….when i go for my morning walk the Red Wing Blackbirds are yelling at me…………………………………………………………

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 12, 2023 at 8:43 pm

      Those Red-winged Blackbirds are pretty vocal aren’t they Ann Marie … I am happy to hear them in the Spring, the first birds to return in Springtime, now that Robins stay all year around. They are mean – they dive bomb whomever/whatever comes close to them.

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  7. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    October 11, 2023 at 11:38 pm

    Our “Spring is sprung” bird! They never used to but now they eat at our feeder. I can hear him singing just by looking at your first picture Linda.

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  8. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    October 12, 2023 at 12:00 am

    So beautiful Red winged Blackbird. I never seen here!. You title is very good.

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  9. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    October 12, 2023 at 6:33 am

    A flashback to Spring! I haven’t seen the RWB since then. They do like to sing!

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  10. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    October 12, 2023 at 8:39 am

    Oh my, his sweet song must have been filling the air!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 12, 2023 at 9:22 pm

      Oh Barbara, those Red-winged Blackbirds sure have lung power and are strong singers. I love hearing them trilling – their voice carries even when it is not so quiet at the Park. They are our first birds we see in Spring (our Robins stay all year around now) and are a welcome sight as it means Spring is on the way!

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  11. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    October 12, 2023 at 11:52 am

    Once upon a time we lived in a neighborhood that had lots of redwing blackbirds. They were a delight to see.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 12, 2023 at 9:24 pm

      I agree Ally. They are beautiful birds and they sing so strongly that you can’t miss hearing them. I hear them in Spring when they return from warmer climates and seeing them means our warmer weather is not far off.

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  12. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    October 12, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    I just love these blackbirds, Linda! they have that distinctive metallic sound in their call. I just saw one in our yard the other day!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 12, 2023 at 9:27 pm

      I agree with you Terri – their strong voices carry throughout the Park where I walk daily, especially in the morning. When they return to SE Michigan in March, it means Spring and warmer weather is finally on the way! Ours have left for warmer climates a month ago, so lucky you seeing one in Octobr.

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  13. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    October 12, 2023 at 10:41 pm

    They and smarter than us and go south for the winter. 😉

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  14. Zazzy's avatar Zazzy says:
    October 13, 2023 at 4:45 pm

    We had them in Wyoming, but I don’t recall one ever singing to me.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 13, 2023 at 8:30 pm

      Well I hope you get to hear them one day Zazzy – ours are gone now for the Winter, but they are our first birds to return to Michigan in the Spring, so they are a welcome sight and sound.

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  15. J P's avatar J P says:
    October 15, 2023 at 12:16 am

    I loved the pun with the song title. I have not thought of Roberta Flack for ages, but now that song is coursing through my brain. I would have gone with an older song – Bye Bye Blackbird, but I think your choice was better.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      October 15, 2023 at 8:56 pm

      Glad you liked the pun JP. For tomorrow’s post I borrowed a line from Ol’ Blue Eyes for the title … maybe a little bit corny, but it worked for the pics. As for Roberta Flack, I’m was not really a fan, but that song came to mind. I thought all her songs sounded alike to me and my mom once called downstairs and said “that song sounds like a funeral dirge” while “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was playing while I was working on something. I hope your ear worm has left by now.

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  16. Amorina Rose's avatar Amorina Rose says:
    October 15, 2023 at 7:15 am

    Clever title. It made me smile when I needed it.

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