Originally posted by CharLac Well it is not the normal red-winged Blackbird we are used to seeing in Eastern Ontario, and not a Grackle either, they have blue heads. This one has a brown head and now that I think about it, it may be a Brown-Headed Cowbird
I think that CharLac is probably on the right train for id. The bill looks to me too heavy ("deep" where is contacts the face) for a blackbird or grackle. Looks like a seed-crushing bill. Of course, I've been wrong before, quite a few times now that I start counting. Hang on, I need a calculator.