I saw a red-winged blackbird!

[conuly]

I didn't get a good look, seeing it as I did out a bus window, but did I have to? They're not that hard to identify.

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[zavodilaterrarium]

Pretty :D

[carbonel]

But if you only thought you saw it, your experience could match the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA20Mq62U0k

[watervole]

I'm not surprised they grow up to resemble the birds raising them, as opposed to their genetic parents. Very necessary in a highly polygynous species...

Have you seen the latest research on feeding birds? I may take my feeder down all together. In the UK, the decline of several garden birds has now been firmly pinned on infections spread by feeders.