Quadruplets
The nest of a red-winged blackbird reveals four unhatched eggs, suspended among the reeds in the Trout Pond.
Super Moonsong
A freshly returned blackbird sings to an almost full “supermoon“, adding his voice to the rising cacophony of the wet meadow in springtime.
Mother’s Eye View
Three blackbird chicks open up, mistaking anything that moves above them for their mother.
Peeking Through
A remote camera catches a blackbird chick waiting for feeding, seen through its mother’s legs.
Sing Your Heart Out
A blackbird, back on the Island for another season, sings its heart out in the Ward’s wet meadow.
60 Million Year Old Baby
A blackbird chick sleeps in its nest, waiting for another meal to be delivered by its parents.
Silhouettes of Spring
Unseasonably high water levels in Spring made it possible to kayak in the wet meadow on Ward’s. Amid the deafening cacophony of nesting blackbirds, this soon-to-be-mother posed in perfect silhouette on one of last year’s reeds.