This has been an interesting week in the backyard. First Vlad the Nutcracker Impaler and his handy work and then we had this red-winged blackbird show up. While not an uncommon bird by any stretch except… I’ve never had one in the backyard before. He’s alone but has been around since Saturday and seems healthy. We have nothing but pine forest around us for miles, though any water areas are still frozen over right now anyway. I guess he’s going to hang out with us until things thaw out. As you can see by this photo, he’s serenading us too, which I totally don’t mind at all.