You don't usually see these birds locally.
Brad McBlain took a photo of a yellow-headed blackbird this weekend in Chisholm.
"I suspect that it is a rare sighting as the range of this bird does not extend further east than Lake Michigan," he wrote to BayToday.
The adult male is mainly black with a yellow head and breast; they have a white wing patch sometimes only visible in flight.
The breeding habitat of the yellow-headed blackbird is cattail marshes in North America, mainly west of the Great Lakes says Wikipedia.
These birds migrate in the winter to the southwestern United States and Mexico.
Audubon guide to North American birds says it may have the worst song of any North American bird, a hoarse, harsh scraping.
