Red-breasted Blackbird at Ammo Ponds, a report by Kent Livezey


At 6:30 am on December 28, I spotted a male Red-breasted Blackbird foraging in front of the gates at Ammo Ponds by Pipeline Road. My clients (Tushar and Jaimin Patel) barely had time to snap a few shots (presented here) before two Buff-throated Saltators chased the blackbird away, flushing it into the vegetation to the north. I birded there at the same time the following day, but did not see it again.