Bird: blackbird 'turdus murula'

Hatching from tiny sky blue eggs, blackbirds are actually brown to start, and of course the females stay brown while the males flourish to dark-brown/black with bright egg-yolk yellow beak and ring around eyes. Blackbirds love to dig, flicking sideways through piles of leaves and dirt, flinging aside debris for bugs and worms below. They're early risers and often the last to bed, perched prominently, singing their wide range of tones.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly

Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly

Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Songwriters: John Lennon, Paul McCartney