Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: P1060823 FZ28

Brewer's Blackbird

15 May 2009 168
I managed to get close enough to this Brewer's Blackbird at Confluence Park the other day to get a closer shot than I had ever taken before. Still had to crop, though. Unfortunately, it was perched in a horrible tangle of thin branches. It does show that white eye, though, and some of the iridescent feathers. Apparently, in males, the eye colour changes to grayish white then yellow with age.