This guy graciously agreed to come out of hiding in the fir tree and pose on the end of a branch for me.
I just had to take the opportunity to snap his photo as I just happened to have my camera in hand!
Smithsonian Field Guide says that the red-winged blackbird is perhaps the most abundant bird in North America. It breeds in wetlands of all sorts and wanders into croplands to feed. In winter, forms immense roosts but smaller parties will visit feeders. It will arrive very early in the spring with the males establishing marshland territories immediately.
