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Rusty Blackbird refuels in Howard, PA

A non-breeding male Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) stopped by my feeding stations this morning. This was the first time that I have seen a Rusty at my backyard feeders. It was feeding along the paver walk, between the house and a flower garden. The bird was seen twice before 1pm, but did not show in the late afternoon. The images were taken with an Olympus OM-D EM-5 camera with a Lumix 45-200mm f5.6 lens, by shooting through both a window and a screen. Images were cropped, re-sized and edited in Photoshop CS6. Ambient lighting conditions were overcast with sun, essentially "cloudy bright" with gray light. I shot at ISO 800 to get a fast shutter speed.
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