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Nesting in the crown of Mary at St. Ottilien Archabbey, Oberbayern, Germany.

We can’t always see the flows around us, but that doesn’t mean they’re not there. Audobon Photography Award winner Kathrin Swaboda waited for a cold morning to catch this spectacular photo of a red-winged blackbird’s song. In the morning chill, moisture from the bird’s breath condensed inside the vortex rings it emitted, giving us a glimpse of its sound. (Image credit: K. Swaboda; via Gizmodo; submitted by Joseph S and Stuart H)

Blackbird’s nest in the folded hands of a statue on a graveyard in Berlin, Germany, 1932. National Archive.

“Nevica sui giusti e sugli ingiusti” come direbbe Linus

Winter Gatherer - Mixed media on a 8 x 8 inch box canvas by Jo Grundy

Blackbird by Jeff Beck

Beck using the curved side of a dinner fork to get ultra-high notes to simulate the ambient chirping of birds sampled for the track: “Round about spring, a blackbird sings loudly up on my roof,” jeff said, and “Although I didn’t record that bird, I got a tape of a blackbird and started jamming with him. If you listen, the notes the bird is singing are almost beyond human hearing, but the actual punctuation and tonal things are there. I aped the bird as close as I could, and we all had a good laugh with that one.” Album “YOU HAD IT COMING” (2003)

SINCE by Zombie37 on Flickr.

Redwinged Blackbird riding on the back of a Redtailed Hawk

What a lucky photographer. Amazing.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night ♪

This song is so beautiful, it makes me cry.