Red-winged blackbird

Jacki
They eat the seeds...high roughage.
The females have not arrived yet, so the guys just hang out. The nesting/breeding action is 3 or 4 (?) weeks away. In May, when the boys are wooing the ladies, they let their guard down and you can usually get closer. This was shot at about 10 m.
This specimen actually has a wound on its right jaw and not very photogenic. 
Clive

They sleep around a LOT according to the bird biologists:

• The Red-winged Blackbird is a highly polygynous species, meaning males have many female mates – up to 15 in some cases. In some populations 90 percent of territorial males have more than one female nesting on their territories. But all is not as it seems: one-quarter to one-half of nestlings turn out to have been sired by someone other than the territorial male.
• Male Red-winged Blackbirds fiercely defend their territories during the breeding season, spending more than a quarter of daylight hours in territory defense. He chases other males out of the territory and attacks nest predators, sometimes going after much larger animals, including horses and people.