A beautiful bird on a beautiful day I fed him and he was gone.

he common blackbird of the nominate subspecies T. m. merula is 23.5–29 cm (9+1⁄4–11+1⁄2 in) in length, has a long tail, and weighs 80–125 g (2+7⁄8–4+3⁄8 oz). The adult male has glossy black plumage, blackish-brown legs, a yellow eye-ring and an orange-yellow bill. The bill darkens somewhat in winter.[18] The adult female is sooty-brown with a dull yellowish-brownish bill, a brownish-white throat and some weak mottling on the breast. The juvenile is similar to the female, but has pale spots on the upperparts, and the very young juvenile also has a speckled breast. Young birds vary in the shade of brown, with darker birds presumably males.[18] The first year male resembles the adult male, but has a dark bill and weaker eye ring, and its folded wing is brown, rather than black like the body plumage.[8]