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Post by rowanberry on Nov 26, 2016 20:44:40 GMT
Our blackbird is back! She vanishes for a few months every autumn/early winter and then suddenly reappears, but this year I'd about given up on her...she disappeared back around the first week of September. She has been a regular here in our garden for nearly four or five years, (we were trying to work it out, but I'm terrible about properly dating photos) but when I first noticed her she wasn't much more than a fledgling...still so speckled that I first thought she was a thrush...but I'm pretty sure it was autumn 2010. Today I looked out and saw a female blackbird having a grand time in the birdbath- I thought... maybe? Went to the door and opened it, and she flew up onto the branch over the bath, preening and shaking the water from her wings, unconcerned that I was standing there. I made the 'chuck-chuck' noise that I use to call her to her dish...and she flew down like she'd never been away. Had some suet pellets and meal worms, checked out the garden to make sure I was keeping it up to standard and then came back for seconds. Hopefully she'll come again tomorrow and I'll get some photos. I was like this all morning. I KNOW I shouldn't get attached and I do try not to. She's a special bird, though. Have to make an exception sometimes.
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Post by Tringa on Nov 27, 2016 10:09:11 GMT
Great story. I can understand you getting attached. We used to have a robin we could identify(someone had put a small plastic ring on it) and it was always good to see it in the garden.
Dave
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Post by rowanberry on Nov 30, 2016 22:27:41 GMT
Finally got a decent photo of her this morning...in the bath, as cold as it was! (There's frost coating the baby's tears in the foreground) My hands were like ice after being outside just for the few minutes it took to top up the feeders- I always amazed at how they can tolerate such cold water. Blackbird in the Bath Nov2016 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by rowanberry on Dec 1, 2016 21:57:13 GMT
A dunnock practically under my feet as I filled the feeders. They all get bolder once winter moves in!
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Post by NellyDee on Dec 6, 2016 11:08:29 GMT
Finally got a decent photo of her this morning...in the bath, as cold as it was! (There's frost coating the baby's tears in the foreground) My hands were like ice after being outside just for the few minutes it took to top up the feeders- I always amazed at how they can tolerate such cold water. Lovely. I can understand getting attached. I am a sucker for that, then get very upset when they go. Had to smile at you saying how can they tolerate such cold water. Yesterday I was looking at the birds all hyper fluffed up and wondered how their legs kept warm not having feathers on to fluff up. I had put out scraps of fat for the pine martens and it was frozen solid, so not eaten. So how come the birds legs don't do the same.
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