The adult male has a black head, wings and upperparts and a bright rose-red patch on its breast; the wings have white patches and rose red linings.

Follow the sound into thickets and vine tangles and you’ll be rewarded by a somber gray bird with a black cap and bright rusty feathers under the tail. Common at bird feeders but often feeds on the ground. Western scrub jays have a similar size and shape, plus the black stripe across the eyes. Female has slightly less yellow than male.

Western scrub jays have a similar size and shape, plus the black stripe across the eyes. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak's breeding habitat is open deciduous woods across most of Canada and the eastern United States. Its blue, black and white colors are not as pronounced as the blue jay's. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill.

Small, lively, sociable and noisy birds. The adult female has dark grey upperparts, a white stripe over the eye, streaked underparts and yellowish wing linings. House Sparrow.

Legs and feet are gray. The Goldcrest is smaller than the Wren and is Europe's smallest bird.

Dunnock . In most places, the most common black-colored of the birds in the yard is likely the starling. Black bill, gray legs and feet. The flashy black, white, and cinnamon males and the less flamboyant females sing from perches in suburbs, desert thickets, and mountain forests. Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. The carrion crow can however be quite wary of humans – ... Grey-brown in colour they have a pale underbelly and a striking black and yellow stripe across their head. The smart black-and-white head, pale beak, and crisp gray breast combine for a dashing look – and make it one of the surest sparrow identifications in North America. Black-colored--or at least mostly black-colored--birds in the yard tend to be one of these: European Starling, Common Grackle, Red-winged Blackbird, and Brown-headed Cowbird. The head, nape, throat, and breast are bright red; moustache stripe is white. Males have an orange middle to their stripe while females do not. On closer inspection, there are two whitish wing bars and a dark mark on the wings.

Red-breasted Sapsucker: Medium-sized woodpecker with black-and-white barred upperparts, pale yellow belly, and white rump. Northern Flickers are unusual among North American woodpeckers in that their general coloration is brown rather than black and white. Depending on your habitat, American Crows may also visit your yard.