Blackbird?

Very happy to see a blackbird in the garden, as I feared he may disappear once we got our cat.

Another plus of his return is it prompted me to discover, randomly, that the song "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four-and-twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" was actually a coded message used to recruit crew members for the notorious 18th-century pirate Blackbeard. Allegedly.

More to the point, is this a picture of a blackbird? I gather that they are referred to as 'sexually dimorphic', meaning that the plumage of the female is completely different from that of the male.

But my friend Alison in North Berwick may have a point: she insists this is a picture of 'male brownbird'!