Ever Cautious Red-Winged Blackbirds Keep Their Distance, Eden Valley MN

…"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. .... Unless you’re fond of hollering you don’t make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you’re in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you’re losing time."

Photo needed for RWBB in Eden Valley MN & Paynesville MN area. Notes: The two photos in this "Photo Stitch" were taken to show best the Red-Winged Blackbirds in this marsh. Several trees on the horizon are rendered hazy because I moved laterally between the two shots in a futile attempt to move closer to these play-it-safe modern day dinosaurs. *************************

(Photo = 102-0285+0286 ...... ZMM Page = 006 ...... Photo actually at WayPt = 010k 4Mi West of Lowry MN. Duck hunting slough with cattails & Redwing blackbirds and nests.)