I saw this
red-winged blackbird for the first time this week. He's a beauty with that bit of red and yellow on his wing – epaulettes some people call them. There's also another blackbird of some kind that I have yet to identify: he's all black with an iridescent blue to his head and neck, certainly not as blah as the crow or raven. This
illustration of the great-tailed grackle looks very like, but I don't think the tail on ours is nearly as big. Maybe he's just an adolescent?
