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Geographic Range
During the summer, the yellow-headed blackbird migrates north to the west-central portions of Canada and the United States. Its range extends as far west as central-interior British Columbia, moving directly south through the central-interior west coast to northeastern Baja California. The eastern edge of the Yellow-headed Blackbird's range extends from western Ontario to northern Missouri.
During the winter, it can be found from California to Texas as well as in Mexico and casually in Costa Rica. (Ditital Atlas of Idaho version 1.3, 2000; Stokes and Stokes, 1996)
- Biogeographic Regions
- nearctic
- neotropical
Yellow-headed blackbirds are found in freshwater marshes during the summer. They particularly like to live amongst cattails, tule, and bulrush. During migration and over the winter months, the Yellow-headed Blackbird is found in open, cultivated lands, in fields, and in pastures. (Ditital Atlas of Idaho version 1.3, 2000)
- Terrestrial Biomes
- savanna or grassland
- forest
- Aquatic Biomes
- lakes and ponds
- rivers and streams
Physical Description
His bright yellow hood and black body best identify the male Yellow-headed Blackbird. A white patch on his wing can be seen both while perched or flying. The female's coloring is more subdued. She can be best identified by her duller-yellow supercilium, throat, and breast. The rest of her body is grayish-brown, and she has white streaks extending down her breast. Juveniles are similar in appearance to the females.
Both male and female Yellow-headed Blackbirds are 9.5 inches (24 cm) long and have sharply pointed black bills. (Gough et al. 1988; Stokes and Stokes 1996)
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Average mass
- 65 g
- 2.29 oz
A polygynous breeder, the male Yellow-headed Blackbird stakes out his claim in a habitat of reeds over permanent open water. Females arrive to the area a few days later and are pursued by the males who sit on elevated vegetation with a spread tail and half-open wings and "sing." Sadly for human listeners, his song is composed of short, choked notes that sound more like a saw grating metal than a Romeo in love. The male Yellow-headed Blackbird may be able to secure up to as many as six mates depending on the quality of his territory. Male Yellow-headed Blackbirds who acquire new territory do not destroy broods sired by the previous territorial male. This tolerance for unrelated young may help them attract new mates as the females may mate and lay a second clutch with the new male.
The female builds a bulky, woven nest of wet vegetation in the reeds over water. As the nest materials dry, it shrinks, tightening its support on the emergent vegetation upon which it is attached. Nest building takes two to four days, and the nest is suspended ½ foot to three feet above the water.
The female Yellow-headed blackbird lays 3-5 greenish-white eggs with dark marks. Incubation lasts 11-13 days, and the chicks are altricial. They fledge within 9-12 days of hatching, and during their time in the nest, both parents feed them. For the first four days after birth, the chicks are fed at least partly by regurgitation. The amount of begging for food by Yellow-headed Blackbird chicks is related to the amount of food the parents bring to the nest. As nestlings, male Yellow-headed Blackbirds are significantly larger than their female counterparts. Yellow-headed Blackbirds only raise one (possibly two) broods each summer while their neighbors, the Red-winged Blackbirds, raises two to three broods (Elrich et al. 1988; Ortega and Cruz 1992; Gori et al. 1996; Stokes and Stokes 1996; Price 1998)
- Key Reproductive Features
- iteroparous
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- oviparous
- Average lifespan
Status: wild
- 150 months
- Bird Banding Laboratory
- Average lifespan
Yellow-headed Blackbirds feed by gleaning insects and seeds from plants and from the ground, and by hawking insects in the air. Their main method of foraging is to push their bill into the ground or a food item and then force their bill, as well as the substrate, open.
Yellow-headed Blackbirds are strongly territorial during the breeding season. They prefer nesting in marshes above water two to four feet deep. Their nests are usually clumped in a different part of the marsh from the Red-Winged Blackbird who prefer nesting over shallower water. Marsh Wrens (Cistothorus palustris) occasionally destroy Yellow-headed Blackbird nests, so the territorial male excludes Marsh Wrens from their nesting areas.
During fall migration, males often form flocks that are separate from the females and young. Over the winter, the Yellow-headed Blackbird forms enormous flocks with other species of birds. (Elrich et al. 1988; University of Guelph. 1998)
- Key Behaviors
- flies
- motile
Communication and Perception
Food Habits
Insects are the favorite food of the Yellow-headed Blackbird. It also forages on the ground to eat seeds, spiders, grass, and forb seeds. This blackbird can be seen foraging in fields, meadows, ranches, agricultural areas, and farms. (Ehrich, et al., 1988; Stokes and Stokes, 1996)
- Primary Diet
- omnivore
- Animal Foods
- insects
- Plant Foods
- seeds, grains, and nuts
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
As an insect eater, the Yellow-headed Blackbird may benefit humans by eating potentially harmful (or painful) insects such as crop-eating grasshoppers.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
In the spring, several species of blackbirds including the Yellow-headed Blackbird feed on newly planted seed in agricultural fields. They are therefore somewhat responsible for losses farmers absorb in missing crops. (Atkinson 1969)
Conservation Status
Yellow-headed Blackbirds are widespread, abundant, and secure throughout most of their range. The Eastern and Central Breeding Bird Surveys have shown increases in Yellow-headed Blackbird populations of around 2% per year from 1966-1993 while the Christmas Bird Counts have recorded decreases in populations of more than 2% per year. (Stokes and Stokes 1996; Digital Atlas of Idaho 2000). This is a species of special concern in Michigan and in California.
- IUCN Red List
Least Concern
More information
- US Migratory Bird Act
- Protected
- US Federal List
- No special status
- No special status
- State of Michigan List
- Special Concern
Stephanie Seto (editor), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Althea Dotzour (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Terry Root (editor), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- Nearctic
living in the Nearctic biogeographic province, the northern part of the New World. This includes Greenland, the Canadian Arctic islands, and all of the North American as far south as the highlands of central Mexico.
- Neotropical
living in the southern part of the New World. In other words, Central and South America.
- acoustic
uses sound to communicate
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- forest
forest biomes are dominated by trees, otherwise forest biomes can vary widely in amount of precipitation and seasonality.
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- omnivore
an animal that mainly eats all kinds of things, including plants and animals
- oviparous
reproduction in which eggs are released by the female; development of offspring occurs outside the mother's body.
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- tropical savanna and grassland
A terrestrial biome. Savannas are grasslands with scattered individual trees that do not form a closed canopy. Extensive savannas are found in parts of subtropical and tropical Africa and South America, and in Australia.
- savanna
A grassland with scattered trees or scattered clumps of trees, a type of community intermediate between grassland and forest. See also Tropical savanna and grassland biome.
- temperate grassland
A terrestrial biome found in temperate latitudes (>23.5° N or S latitude). Vegetation is made up mostly of grasses, the height and species diversity of which depend largely on the amount of moisture available. Fire and grazing are important in the long-term maintenance of grasslands.
- visual
uses sight to communicate
Atkinson, M. 1969. "Yellow-headed Blackbird" (On-line). Accessed September 30, 2000 at http://www.softcom.net/users/naturenotes/ylwhdbbd.htm.
Ditital Atlas of Idaho version 1.3, 2000. "Digital Atlas of Idaho: Yellow-headed Blackbird" (On-line). Accessed September 30, 2000 at http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas.
Ehrich, P., D. Dobkin, D. Wheye. 1988. The Birder's Handbook. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc..
Gori, D., S. Rohwer, J. Casselle. July 1996. Accepting unrelated broods helps replacement male yellow-headed blackbirds attract mates. Behavior Ecology, 7(1): 49-54.
Gough, G., J. Saur, M. Iliff. 1988 Version 97.1. "Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter: Yellow-headed Blackbird Xaanthocephalus xanthocephalus" (On-line). Accessed September 30, 2000 at http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Idtips/h4970id.html.
National Geographic, 1999. Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Washington D.C.: National Geographic.
Ortega, C., A. Cruz. April 1992. Differential Growth Patterns of Nestling Brown-Headed Cowbirds and Yellow-Headed Blackbirds. The Auk, 109; 2: 368.
Price, K. September 1998. Benefits of begging for Yellow-headed Blackbird nestlings. Animal Behavior, 56(3): 571-577.
Stokes, D., L. Stokes. 1996. Stokes Field Guide to Birds. New York: Little, Brown, and Co..
University of Guelph, 1998. "Canada's Aquatic Environments: Yellow-headed Blackbird" (On-line). Accessed October 14, 2000 at http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/birds/speciesacc/accounts/warblers/xanthoce/account.htm.


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"The global resurgence of Kentucky Bourbon is phenomenal, but there's much work to be done," Gregory said. "The Commonwealth still produces about 95 percent of the world's Bourbon, yet we rank eighth in the country in the number of permitted distilleries.
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"This truly is the Golden Age of Bourbon," Gregory said. "And it's an honor to once again proclaim that Kentucky has a million more barrels of Bourbon than people living in our beloved Commonwealth.
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Woodford Reserve has additionally made a $1,000 nominal donation to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys' Fund, who additionally participated in the national consumer voting program. The donation will be used to disburse the medical costs faced by injured jockeys.
Four Roses Distillery's CEO and President, Satoko Yoshida, announced today the retirement of long-time Master Distiller Jim Rutledge – effective September 1, 2015.
Jim is in his 49th year working in the Bourbon business with Seagram and Four Roses, and he has been Master Distiller at Four Roses for more than 20 years. His passion, enthusiasm and loyalty for Four Roses Bourbons and the distillery employees and staff were instrumental in returning Four Roses Bourbon to the USA after spending more than 40 years in European and Japanese markets only.
In 2001, Rutledge was inducted into the inaugural class of the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. He was given a "Lifetime Achievement Award" by Malt Advocate Magazine in 2007, and in 2008 Whisky Magazine named him "Whisky Ambassador of the Year – American Whiskies." In 2012, Whisky Magazine also named Jim to its Icons of Whisky Hall of Fame, for global whiskies. He was the 2nd American inducted into this elite group of whisky makers.
When asked about retirement and what may lie ahead, Rutledge stated that his passion for the Bourbon industry, and especially Four Roses, will never diminish, and he went on to say he plans to stay involved in the industry he loves in so much – perhaps including various roles as Four Roses' Master Distiller Emeritus.
Four Roses is the only Kentucky Bourbon Distillery to use 5 proprietary yeast strains in combination with 2 mashbills to distill and age in new white oak barrels 10 unique Bourbon recipes. Rutledge went on to say that nothing will change with his retirement, and Four Roses will continue producing the 10 Bourbons with the same loving care to ensure the continuance of the very mellow and smooth Bourbons as its consumers have become accustomed to finding with all its Bourbon renderings.
Rutledge announced, with his usual passion and enthusiasm, that Brent Elliott will replace him as Master Distiller. He went on to say: "With Brent's knowledge of the Bourbon industry, the distillery process, and his passion for all facets of Four Roses Distillery operations, I have every confidence the growth of Four Roses Bourbons will continue under Brent's leadership."
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Castle Brands Inc. (NYSE MKT: ROX), a developer and international marketer of premium and super-premium branded spirits, today announced that it has purchased approximately 20% of Copperhead Distillery Company, which owns and operates the Kentucky Artisan Distillery. The investment is part of a wide-reaching agreement to build a new warehouse to storeJefferson's bourbons, provide distilling capabilities using special mash-bills made from locally grown grains, and create a visitor center and store to enhance the consumer experience for the Jefferson's brand.
Castle Brand's investment will be used to purchase land near the current distillery and for the construction of a new warehouse and tasting facility in Crestwood, Kentucky. The warehouse will have the capacity to store up to 10,000 barrels, with room for expansion, and will facilitate the continued growth of Jefferson's wood finishes and barrel-aged cocktails.
A Jefferson's visitor center which includes a store, showcases the Jefferson's brand and is already open to visitors.
John Glover, Chief Operating Officer of Castle Brands, said "Kentucky Artisan Distillery is the perfect partner for Jefferson's bourbon. It is the brainchild of Steve Thompson, former President of Brown Forman Distillery Company. They specialize in "Estate grown and distilled" small batch production of very high quality bourbon and rye. Steve not only has a lifetime of experience making the highest quality spirits, but has built a flexible, scalable distillery that can add great value to the Jefferson's brand."
Stephen Thompson, President and General Manager of Kentucky Artisan Distillery, stated "We are excited to partner with Castle Brands to further develop the super-premiumJefferson's portfolio. We look forward to working with Castle Brands for many years to come and welcoming friends to the new Jefferson's visitor center."
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Buffalo Trace Distillery just completed two big construction projects, having finished a 5,500 square foot expansion of its Visitor Center and having completely renovated the historic Old Taylor House, the oldest structure on the Distillery's property.
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Buffalo Trace did a vertical expansion of its Visitor Center by expanding upward into the second floor where there is more room to grow as needed.
A newly constructed grand staircase made of white oak leads to the beautiful new space, which is complete with four additional tasting bar areas and a new meeting and event space. At the top of the grand staircase, guests are welcomed to the second floor by a huge mural of a landscape of the Distillery. A collection of historic article clippings and photos from the Distillery archives can also be viewed on the wall at the top of the stairs.
Future additions from the Distillery archives are already being planned for the second floor, including the construction of a vault. The vault will be built into the back wall to hold rare, old bottles and display them in a unique, interactive way for guests to view. Display cases featuring old bottles and artifacts will also be installed on the second floor, including one dedicated to the Single Oak Project.
By expanding upward, the first floor now has ample space for Gift Shop merchandise and features a new checkout counter and dedicated spirits space. Additionally, new bathrooms have been installed on both floors.
"We are thrilled to have completed this expansion," Marketing Services Director Meredith Moody said. "The new space looks beautiful, and having this additional space will allow us to accommodate more guests in our Gift Shop to allow for our rapid growth of tour visitors."
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The Old Taylor House sits on the Distillery property today as not only the oldest structure at the Distillery, but the oldest residential building in Franklin County, Kentucky. Constructed in the late 1700s, with the second floor added in the 1800s, the house was originally built for Commodore Richard Taylor who served as superintendent of navigation on the Kentucky River and who was great-grandfather to Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr.
Since its inception, the two-story house has held many different roles, including being a residence, first aid clinic, and even a laboratory for the Distillery.
After a long life of good use, the house had begun to deteriorate, but has now been fully restored to preserve its rich history.
Evidence of that preserved history can be seen in details throughout the house down to the horsehair that was used as a bonding agent in the original construction of the walls.
The renovated house features beautiful hardwood floors and fresh paint throughout, and is lit by hanging Edison bulbs. The second floor lab displays old beakers and artifacts once used in the house.
"We're so excited to have been able to restore such a significant piece of our history," Moody said. "The restoration looks beautiful and we look forward to utilizing this space for many more generations."
The Distillery intends to incorporate the restored house into some of its existing tours.
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This downtown San Francisco hotel is located six blocks from Union Square and the theater district, and eight blocks from Chinatown's main gate. The Powell Street cable car line is four blocks away.
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New Year's Day, 2003. At a semi-luxury hotel a few kilometers from the coast, a sprawling complex of balconied buildings and a swimming pool nestled next to a stand of trees, a few hundred ravers in summer duds-- some in dirty Diesels, some in bikinis, and all eyes hidden behind enormous, smoke-colored shades-- pivot and sway while the last molecules of MDMA sweat their way out of their systems. On a stage facing the pool, a skinny young man with a blond mane swigs champagne from the bottle while he nudges absently at a computer mouse; his own massive eyeshield tosses off disco glints that mirror the flashes of light that go tearing up the firelines between bass and space in his music.
It's every Balearic cliché at once, except that this isn't Ibiza, it's Reñaca, Chile; and the laptop jockey isn't Sasha van Oakenweed but a skinny Finn named Luomo, née Sasu Ripatti, best known until not long before as Vladislav Delay-- a former free-jazz drummer who made the leap to Chain Reaction-styled "heroin house" before being crowned prince of clicks + cuts. The event is notable for several reasons, among them the globalization of European leisure culture; but the real significance here concerns the ongoing conversion of tight-lipped minimalism into something self-consciously sexy and sophisticated and Ecstasy-friendly. It's the preface to an ongoing evolution that is only coming to fruition in 2005, when the Sasha van Oakenweeds of the world pepper their mixes with tracks from Kompakt and Traum, and Creamfields' beachside raves feature the likes of Ellen Allien and Blackstrobe alongside Deep Dish and Carl Cox. In many ways, all this began with Luomo's 2000 debut, Vocalcity, reissued this month on Ripatti's own Huume label.
Vocalcity was unexpected, and not a little audacious: "Luomo-- The Next Episode in House-- prod. by Vladislav Delay," proclaimed a sticker on the sleeve. The album was published by Force Tracks, one of an avalanche of sublabels from Frankfurt's Force Inc., an erstwhile "proper" techno imprint that had gone all theoretical as it aged, christening sublabels after Deleuze and Guattari tomes and fashioning grand philosophies around concepts like "clicks + cuts." (Full disclosure: I wrote the liner notes for Clicks + Cuts 2.) "The Next Episode in House" sounded like the kind of sweeping, appropriationist, Zeitgeist-stroking statement that Force would make-- but damned if it weren't true. If anything, it sounds even truer today. It's not that Luomo advanced the cause of house music in some way that his forebears (Chez Damier, Derrick May, and Maurizio, to pick three) didn't manage to. But there was nothing else that sounded like Vocalcity at the time, and there's been precious little that sounds like it since, including Luomo's slightly disappointing, ill-fated 2003 followup The Present Lover.
Writing in The Wire back in 2001, I pegged Vocalcity as the tipping point (the clipping point?) in what I called microhouse-- a genre that seemed to take the essential template of house music and shrink its constituent parts (that shoomping beat, a cavernous sense of space, and an echo of soul music as processed through disco) down to byte-sized pieces, leaving a schematic of dotted lines swimming through oceans of dubwise absence. But listening now, it's clear that I got it exactly backwards, at least in Luomo's case. What stands out now, a half-decade later, isn't the smallness of Vocalcity's sounds but its fullness. Sure, Luomo has the requisite clicks and clanks; as "Market", the absolutely epic lead track, opens up, half the action is in the chattering of truncated hi-hats and a distant rattle that sounds like an army of mechanics spinning their ratchets. But house music has always had these kind of details; for comparison, just listen to E-Dancer (Kevin Saunderson)'s 1997 cut "World of Deep", the track I've come to believe most closely heralds what Luomo would later attempt. Beneath those enormous, cascading pads, the hi-hats and bells have been whittled down to needlepoint proportions. Luomo emphasized his details by framing them in white space, but what you hear now, after the demise of clicks + cuts, aren't the pinpricks but the enormous, inflated sounds of everything else-- bass, pads, and of course those vocals.
True to its name, Vocalcity put breathy, yearning male and female vocals at the center of its pneumatic mix. Tracks like "Market", "Class", "Synkro", and "Tessio"-- a full two-thirds of the six-track, triple LP-- expand like inner tubes as those voices come rushing in. Indeed, my favorite element of the album has always been the way that "Market" begins by teasing in the vocalist's breaths and sighs, one tiny gasp at a time, along with fragments of sung melody buried deep, deep, deep in the mix. Only at 4:48, nearly halfway through the 12-minute track, does she finally introduce the full vocal hook. And when the sad reprimand drops-- "There's nothing in the world that you can do," repeated a full five times, then a quick breath, and finally the explosive charge buried in the slug, "For me"-- Well, we could talk about formalism all day, but people, that right there is one of the most perfect moments in the world of pop music, albeit a full minute and 18 seconds after most pop songs have punched out the clock and gone home to sleep.
That's the triumph of Vocalcity. Not reduction, but expansion. Vladislav Delay has always aimed for the long view. (If you think Luomo's tracks are long-- "She-Center", at 10 minutes, is the shortest thing on Vocalcity, and the rest average around 12 minutes apiece-- check out Vladislav Delay's 2000 album Entain, where the cuts run from 15 to 22 minutes long. 2001's Anima went even further, comprising a single, hourlong track that swirls in place like a dead tide.) If there's anything "micro" in Vocalcity, it's the way tiny little holes open up within the frizzing chords, as though you could see the pixels framing each fraying waveform. But that's all academic. Five years later, "minimal" techno has fattened itself up again. Most of today's rave hits don't sound anything like Luomo, but I don't think anything today would sound the way it does if Luomo hadn't seduced the tinkerers away from their mouse pads and back to the land of goosebumps and sex. What you hear most in Luomo today are the stomach-punching bass lines, the pistoning chords inherited straight from Chicago's finest, and those maddeningly ambiguous vocals, always hovering just out of reach. Perhaps the long exception is the male refrain in "Synkro", which could stand as the tautological epigraph to the album's simple brilliance: "Because you move/ The way you move."
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Team Cee Lo's Cody Belew made quite a comeback with Queen's "Somebody to Love" on The Voice Season 3 live show tonight, Nov. 26, 2012.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Rafael Furcal could get to like playing in Philadelphia.
Furcal homered from both sides of the plate for his second career multi-homer game in Philly and scored four runs, Raul Mondesi also homered twice and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-4 on Friday night.
Furcal was hitting only .179 and had four hits in his last 28 at-bats coming into the game, but he led an Atlanta offense that hit one fewer homer than it had all season.
"I've been struggling the last few games," Furcal said. "This game got me so excited. I hope I can keep it going. I like any ballpark if I'm hitting good. My confidence can come back anywhere."
Adam LaRoche added a two-run shot and Brian Jordan had a three-run double to help Atlanta snap a two-game losing streak and get the Braves off to a good start on their seven-game road trip.
"To get those bats coming around tonight is a good boost for all of us," Jordan said.
Atlanta manager Bobby Cox earned career win No. 2,008, tying him with Leo Durocher for eighth place on the career list.
Horacio Ramirez (1-0) has not proved incredibly durable in his two starts this year, following his 4 2/3-inning stint against New York with 5 1/3 innings against the Phillies. He gave up six hits and three runs but was supported by an Atlanta offense that matched its highest run total of the season.
Ramirez made only nine starts last year, missing more than three months of the season with a shoulder injury, and won for the first time since last May.
"Personally, I guess it was a big relief to get the win," Ramirez said.
The Braves got to Gavin Floyd (1-1) with a four-run first and chased him in the fourth.
The rookie right-hander, coming off an outstanding first game against St. Louis, walked four batters in the first and gave up Jordan's double for a 4-0 lead. He also allowed a run on a wild pitch.
It may be a while before Floyd gets another start in the majors.
Floyd got a spot in the rotation after Vicente Padilla went on the DL April 1 with right triceps tendinitis. Padilla threw Friday and was expected to go again Sunday before being activated for a start Tuesday against Colorado.
Manager Charlie Manuel said Floyd could go to the bullpen instead of Triple-A Scranton when Padilla returns. That may leave righty reliever Pedro Liriano as the odd man out.
"I guess I'm going to be here, but I don't know what will be going on with the pitching situation," Floyd said.
LaRoche hit a two-run homer off the beer billboard on the second deck in right for a 6-2 lead in the third and Mondesi hit a solo homer off in the fourth off Floyd, the fourth pick of the 2001 draft out of high school.
After giving up only three hits and a run in seven dominant innings against the Cardinals, Floyd gave up eight runs and five hits and walked five in 3 1/3 innings.
"In St. Louis, he had tremendous command of his fastball," Manuel said. "Tonight, he had trouble with his command. He couldn't get his fastball where he wanted."
Chipper Jones reached out and poked an opposite-field double down third off Liriano to make it 7-2 in the fourth, and Mondesi and Furcal each added solo shots in the eighth.
Furcal homered from each side of the plate for the first time in his career and had his third career multi-homer game.
"It's a great ballpark," Furcal said. "If you hit the ball good, no matter where you hit it, it's going to go. It's a nice stadium."
Jimmy Rollins went 3-for-4 for the Phillies, who lost their third straight game, including the final two of a six-game road trip.
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Rollins drove in two runs with a triple in the sixth that made it 9-4.
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Atlanta released left-hander Tom Martin and recalled left-hander John Foster from Triple-A Richmond. Foster had a 1.59 ERA in three games at Richmond. He sat out last season with a shoulder injury and hasn't pitched in the major leagues since 2003 with Milwaukee. Martin had a 19.29 ERA in four games, giving up six hits and five
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Critter Corner: Hope
This is Hope, a Korean Jindo mix and one of 23 dogs who were recently rescued from a meat farm in...
2 Fish & Chips Joints Close But Another Rises from the Greasy Ashes
ABC Canteen brings fried fish and tacos to Fairfax Circle. (Photo: Jody Fellows) It's been a rough...
Press Pass: The Ebony Hillbillies
The Ebony Hillbillies. (Courtesy Photo) The Ebony Hillbillies have been playing together for about...
Falls Church's Finest Competing in Fairfax Games
Detective Jennifer "Missy" Elliot competed in the women's golf events at the...
World Police and Fire Games Kick Off Throughout Region
Weightlifters compete in the crossfit event at Lerner Town Square in Tysons Corner during the 2015...
Taylor Wright Named 2015 Brine National All-Star
Taylor Wright (Courtesy Photo) Taylor Wright of Annandale was named a 2015 Brine National All-Star...
- Falls Church Little League Wraps Up Spring Season
- Mason Boys Soccer Ranked No. 2 in the Nation
- George Mason Girls Capture Eighth Consecutive State Title