Leucistic Yellow-headed Blackbird - Boulder County
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Megan Jones Patterson
May 9, 2020, 3:40:48 PM5/9/20
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I believe this is a leucistic Yellow-headed Blackbird found in the pasture NW of Sterns Lake (technically Boulder County but on edge of Broomfield Co). Thoughts?
Yellow on head and throat and a small patch of yellow in vent area. Foraging with large flock of other Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Brown-headed Cowbirds. Not so great digiscoped picture attached (also took video of behavior but too large to attach).
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Megan Jones Patterson
Boulder County
Ted Floyd
May 10, 2020, 6:58:40 AM5/10/20
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Not all whitish blackbirds are leucistic! Here's an odd one, a common grackle, I found this sunny Sat. morning, May 9, at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County:
I think it spent the night at the base of a Great Blue Heron rookery...
Ted Floyd
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County
John Rawinski
May 11, 2020, 6:40:37 PM5/11/20
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Pretty cool!
On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 1:40:48 PM UTC-6, Megan Jones Patterson wrote:
Marcia Wade - Lafayette, Boulder County
May 26, 2020, 8:20:19 PM5/26/20
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