Possessives

• nest: This year, I could not find a blackbird's nest in my garden.

Converse of object

• hear: How long does it actually take to hear the blackbird sing or feel the sunlight?

• see: Researchers were surprised to see even Blackbirds, normally strict ground feeders, tucking in.

• include: A vast array of birds including blackbirds, greenfinches, thrushes, yellowhammers, to name just a few will nest in these sites.

• catch: Other Recoveries of Note A Blackbird caught at Heysham in March 2003 had been ringed the previous October in Rogaland, Norway.

• find: This year, I could not find a blackbird 's nest in my garden.

• have: Both of these are very mellow singers and we are particularly glad to have a good singing blackbird again.

Adjective modifier

• red-winged: There was a huge roost of Red-winged Blackbirds here.

• yellow-headed: A few waders were seen as well as Lazuli Buntings and a couple of Yellow-headed Blackbirds.

• sr-71: Hint: Whiskey Corridor: Second SR-71: There is a second SR-71 Blackbird on this mission.

• Jamaican: On previous visits we have also seen both Crested Quail-dove and Jamaican Blackbird relatively easily here.

• female: A female blackbird bounces around in the puddle of water on the paving slabs by the fountain.

• male: The male blackbirds are still fighting along their invisible boundary which runs roughly down the center of our garden.

Modifies a noun

• singing: Nearby I see a large blackbird singing in a dead tree.

• song: Compare this sound with the end phrase of the blackbird song 2 below.

• Hollin: Blackbird Hollins explores what these and modern pagan beliefs tell us about the tree.

• nest: The research team studied 6,600 song thrush and blackbird nests across Britain.

Noun used with modifier

• mountain: A rarer bird of sc r ee slopes is the Ring Ouzel, which is a sort of mountain blackbird.

• Mrs: Could you please, Mrs Blackbird, stop your infants from making such a din!