I'm surprisingly excited about this shot. It's only recently that I figured out that the lady blackbirds ( and chicks) are brown and streaky in colour, not the glossy black with red wing patches that I'd always associated with blackbirds, those are just the males.
Then the other day I caught this guy at the feeder. Looks to be an immature male, you can see that he appears to be transitioning from the patterned brown colours into the black with red of the breeding male.
