Redwing

At first I thought it was a robbin.

Lovely Sid, he is like a Robin!

This is a beautiful scene. I love the snow on the branches and the bird :)

The red bit is only under the wings, not on the breast and it most closely resembles a thrush - about the same size too. Very pretty birdy :-)

This is a great photo.... a subject for pastel study perhaps? I am enjoying learning about your birds...in my N.A. ignorance I would have called that a robin... I love your thrushes, especially their habit of eating snails! do they winter in France? wonderful bird pic... we have a redwing too..but it's a blackbird with very bright red epaulets with a yellow stripe! Their call is a very squeeky..."Scurrreeee!" they sound like they're warning all the other animals that man is approaching.

Hi Lori - actually I tried doing this picture as a watercolour - complete disaster! Bin-fodder I'm afraid ha ha (it really was bad!) When I visited Canada I saw your robins and the wonderful red-winged blackbird. I don't know whether Redwings are found in France - the ones we get here I think migrate from further north like Iceland and Norway. They don't normally breed in the UK, although here in Herefordshire there are a few breeding pairs. The one in the picture might be a resident here, but more likely had flown thousands of miles to get here, which is a sobering thought! It looks a lot like a thrush, but is slightly bigger.

When I came to Canada, I saw black birds with red wings and I asked a Canadian man, "Excuse me, what are those black birds with red wings?"
He looked a bit embarrassed and said, "Erm, I'm not trying to be funny, but they're called Red-winged blackbirds". Poor man - bless him x-D

I also saw a very beautiful bright crimson bird which someone told me was called a Cardinal, which seemed a good name :-)

If you want to see some lovely pics of cardinals ...take a boo at Diohio's shots! I have the pleasure of being on the books as the northern most sighting of a cardinal in Ontario... Their range is usually very far south of Moosonee, where I lived in the 90's. (it's on the Arctic watershed at the southern tip of James Bay) A female came to my feeder with a flock of pine grossbeaks...she must have been blown off course with an el nino storm...it was well above freezing at New Years! (a total anomaly) they blamed El Nino and when the temps fell again she was stranded in very severe surroundings. Don't know if she was smart enough to return South or if she died in the terrible cold of later January and February. She was quite a celebrity for a while...every birder for miles came to see her. I started calling her "Amelia" after another famous aviatrix who went a little off course!

Poor thing - hope Amelia made it back south safely :-(