When I Saw This Example Of The ZMM Narrator’s " Red-Winged Blackbirds On A Marsh With Cattails”, I Braked To A Stop To Get A Photograph.

…However, As I Opened My Car Door, Two Of These Ever Cautious, Were Already On The Wing, As You Can See.

… But, If You Look Closely, You Can See Up To 8 Bird-Sized Black Objects Perched On Short Stalks Over The Water.

…ALSO, Notice The Nice Cattail At Top Of Tall Stalk, Lower Right.

…"I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they’re new. It’s wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions. There! A huge flock of red-winged blackbirds ascends from nests in the cattails, startled by our sound. I swat Chris’s knee a second time . . . then I remember he has seen them before.”

16 Miles East & A Bit North Of Oakes, ND.
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