I had one Rusty Blackbird at my feeders this afternoon!
Susan Eaton
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STL CO MO
On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM Kirk Suedmeyer <
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> Good afternoon all!!
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> Had a difficult time differentiating this bird from a Brewers due to the
> falling snow, lack of sunlight, etc., but pretty sure it is a Rusty
> blackbird-long slender bill, yellow-eyed black bird. If I’m wrong, it’s a
> Brewers, either of which would be FOY! 😊 Only one individual amongst
> white throated sparrows, numerous cardinals, house sparrows and juncos.
> Videos on Flickr
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> Also uploaded videos of female green winged teal (Swope Park), Adult and
> Immature Herring gulls from the 19th at Longview lake as well as common
> mergansers, coots, pied billed grebe, and a very cool immature coopers (it
> hunts the feeders and finally got video!!!
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