Yellow-headed Blackbird

Have not yet been able to get a close shot of one of these gorgeous Yellow-headed Blackbirds but thought I would still share this heavily cropped and slightly blurry image. You can occasionally spot one of these brightly coloured birds in cattail marshes, along with Red-winged Blackbirds. The sound they make is a "strained, metallic grating" according to Fisher and Acorn's book, "Birds of Alberta"!