red winged black bird

A Red Winged Blackbird holding on in the wind...and not too happy about it! lol

Saw this guy mooching around on the grass this afternoon. A migratory bird, this is the first one I have seen since they left in the fall. Looks to me like a young male, still has some patterns in its feathers. Whenever they come here, they never show much of their shoulder patches when they...

Looks like a fairly young one. Came in with the gang of Blue Jays yesterday and was a very nervous bird. Any time I came to the window to try to get a shot, he'd take off in a panic. Had to be content to get a far off photo of him from well back from the window. But he got a good feeding despite...

This red winged black bird was giving a shout out to all of it's friends! And he was just perched perfectly!

One of the most annoying birds I have ever had the fortune or misfortune to photograph. This little bugger was hiding his red patch on his wings...until I took the shot with my 70-200mm VRII. Could have cheerfully strangled the little bugger.

the BG is ice

The background is a frozen swamp

I was happy to get some detail on this common bird -- the perch is the same one as the swallow I posted was perched on. I admit, I installed the perch in a swampy area to profit from the background.