red-winged blackbird

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus megapotamus) male quenching its thirst from a mud puddle.

Quite different from the male, yet still very pretty pattern

That common North American black bird with the colorful wing patches in full, adult, male color.

A juvenile male red-winged blackbird, still working on getting to that black coat with the red and yellow wing patches

A lone female at the top of a branch looking out over the wetlands

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus littoralis) male.

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus megapotamus) followed by two Common Grackles (Quiscalus quiscula versicolor).

Tweaked the exposure and cropped it a bit

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I'm assuming this is a first year male

This area that I find these guys in will soon come to an end :( as they are clearing the vegetation down I'm assuming to start building more houses :(

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and looking a bit tired, presumably after a long breeding season. I did get a profile shot too, but somehow this back view speaks to me. Maybe I empathise with him, being rather old and feeling tired myself some days ;)

Have to interrupt the Green Jay shots briefly, so my favorite can come last ... and also to be fair to the other birds that came close for their portraits at the Butterfly Center

Just the other side of the picnic area near the drainage canal where we saw the alligator, there was a long loop of boardwalk through a shady, jungle-like wetland area. We did see a few birds there, but the only one I got a good shot of was this juvenile Red-winged Blackbird. He stayed fairly...

Showing off his handsomeness

It's usually September before these guys hit the feeders

Yellow-headed Blackbird male in part of a large mixed flock of Yellow-headed and Red-winged Blackbirds