Discover nature this week with Missouri's red-winged blackbirds. A stake-out requires being inconspicuous, but not so for red-winged blackbirds. Showing off and making noise is the main objective of their stake-out. Male red-winged blackbirds have already staked-out their territories in wetlands and around ponds and lakes. Their red-and-yellow shoulder patches add glints of color to the landscape – and they won’t hesitate to pump up their color and volume, either. When other birds invade the red