Biologist Howard Clark (@lordorman) monitors Imperial Valley's Burrowing Owls. While out in the field he saw an unusual looking bird in a flock of blackbirds, last week. He snapped these four photographs and emailed them to his friend, Jeff Davis of Fresno Audubon, who confirmed that the bird is an amelanistic Yellow-headed Blackbird. An amelanistic bird differs from an albino in that it is not completely devoid of color. Clark reports this flock of blackbirds is consistently at the intersection of Blair Road and Sinclair Road near Calipatria each morning.