Brown Blackbird

At the Ocala Wetland Recharge Park in Ocala, Florida, I found this cute, little, brown bird and thought it was a type of sparrow that I had never seen before. It obligingly held still for this photo so I could later identify it. To my surprise, it isn’t a sparrow, but rather a female red-winged blackbird. Though it lacks the familiar black body with red shoulder patches of the male, it has its own unique beauty.

I was not surprised once again to be fooled by a female, for I have never quite been able to keep up with the ladies.

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