Help identifying bird by song - South Humber River

[KR Jackson]

Hello, I'm not a newbie birder and was hoping you could assist in identifying a bird that I couldn't really see clearly this morning in South Humber River. It was black with red markings (not a redwing blackbird of which there were several in Humber River Marshes today) as well as three downy woodpeckers south of the Old Mill.

I was, however, able to record its song and downloaded it to Soundcloud at this link:  

https://soundcloud.com/user-424607684-90555753/tracks


Thanks in advance.

[Walter Fisher]

That's a male Northern Cardinal singing.  Perhaps there were shadows of branches on the bird that made him look dark.

Walter

[KR Jackson]

Thank you for the answer. It was indeed fairly low lightening conditions.