During a weekly bird count on Lower Kingman and Heritage Islands along the
Anacostia River today, I sighted a pair of Rusty Blackbirds on Lower Kingman
Is. This is the first time that I've recorded this species in approximately
4 years of monitoring at this site.

The birds were doing precisely what a book describes as their near-exclusive
foraging habit - "flipping wet leaves in search of aquatic insects".

- dhananjaya