Blackbirds Gallery

Sing a Song of Sixpence - Victorian nursery rhyme illustration

"Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye - Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie - When the pie was open'd the birds began to sing - Was that not a dainty dish to set before the King? - The King was in his counting house counting out his money - The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey - The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes - When up jumped a dickey bird and snapt off her nose." The rhyme explains it all!
From "Nursery Rhymes - Ridicula Rediviva" illustrated by J.E. Rogers, with chromolith printing by R. Clay Sons & Taylor and published in London in 1876 by Macmillan and Co

Golden oriole, Venezuelan troupial, oriole

Golden oriole, Venezuelan troupial, oriole blackbird and grackle.. Eurasian golden oriole, Oriolus oriolus male 1, female 2, Venezuelan troupial, Icterus icterus 3, oriole blackbird, Gymnomystax mexicanus 4, greater Antillean grackle, Quiscalus niger 5, and red-breasted blackbird, Sturnella militaris 6. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Friedrich Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

USA, Montana, Great Falls, Benton Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

USA, Montana, Great Falls, Benton Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Yellow-headed blackbird balances on cattail and sings with wings up. Credit as: Arthur Morris / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

© Arthur Morris / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Animal, Art Morris, Arthur Morris, Avian, Balance, Benton Lake, Benton Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Bird, Cattail, Color, Fauna, Great Falls, Green, Jaynes Gallery, Montana, Reed, Sing, Singing, Usa, Wing