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ture sailed over a salt marsh in South Carolina where redwings were nesting. A male flew up and attacked the big black bird repeatedly. A vulture — with its habit of eating dead meat — is no threat to a redwing. Yet the male redwing perceived the vulture as a menace. The vulture seemed to ignore the much smaller bird and sailed
on across the marsh.
The importance of the scarlet shoulder patches in attracting and securing a mate and, at the same time, patrolling a territory, was well illustrated when an ornithologist captured a territorial male and temporarily covered his scarlet feather with paint.
Immediately, the bird lost his mate and his territory. His mate did not recognize him, and other males drove him from the marsh. Both were restored when the paint was removed.
In her delightful cookbook, “Cross Creek Cookery,” published in 1942, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of “The Yearling,” gives a recipe for “blackbird pie,” -to be made with redwings. It sounds delicious.
Rawlings ended the recipe: “Four birds per person
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