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Image Taken on 29 Jun 2007 at 19:21    Image of day on 18 Jul 2007

The plot is delightfully full of unidentifiable juvenile brown birds of various sizes! But we are fairly sure this is a juvenile Blackbird.


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Image Taken on 18 Jun 2006 at 19:53    Image of day on 22 Jun 2006

A blackbird male.


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Image of day on 27 Jul 2005

Male blackbird with a collection of food items in his beak.


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Image of day on 09 Jan 2006

A nice portrait of a female blackbird at the remote site. Comparing the various images of female blackbirds over the last month we conclude we have no idea how many individuals there are!


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Image of day on 15 Jan 2006

A female blackbird caught mid-stride with her tail nicely fanned.


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Image Taken on 01 Jan 2009 at 16:20    Image of day on 20 Jan 2009

Still mainly the male blackbirds at the photo sites though we see a reasonable mix when out and about, so this shot of one of the 'girls' gets her outing.


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Image Taken on 19 Mar 2006 at 17:41    Image of day on 28 Mar 2006

Female Blackbird.


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Image Taken on 27 Feb 2006 at 07:26    Image of day on 08 Mar 2006

Blackbird eyeing over the loose soil before digging in.


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Image of day on 19 Dec 2005

A pair of blackbirds are regular visitors. This is the female.


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Image of day on 09 Dec 2005

Female Blackbird perched on the feeding station log.


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Image of day on 08 Feb 2006

Another blackbird with beak smeared with mud - this time the female (see male at 2 Feb) .


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Image of day on 12 Feb 2006

The female blackbird at the remote feeding log.


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Image of day on 28 Jan 2006

Blackbird female - see her mate day after tomorrow.


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Image Taken on 29 Jan 2009 at 11:23    Image of day on 18 Feb 2009

Coming up to midday some hazy sunshine balanced nicely with the flash to produce this 'blackbird in the woods'.


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Image of day on 24 Mar 2005

We strew some cut grass around the camera sites in the hope of 'seeing' birds collecting it. Well it is disappearing but this female blackbird is the first usable image of a bird taking some.


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Image Taken on 07 Jul 2011 at 05:57    Image of day on 14 Aug 2011

Not good Spring for the blackbirds though - we have eyeballed only a couple youngsters over the whole site. This female is obviously busy on a new nest - caught twice in 90 minutes at the same site carrying maximised beakfuls of materials.


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Image Taken on 18 Feb 2008 at 15:45    Image of day on 19 Mar 2008

Blackbird female collecting nesting material. No sign of the male helping, which doesn't mean he isn't collecting elsewhere.


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Image of day on 25 Jan 2005

This blackbird and her mate are regular visitors and love to eat apple peelings (along with just about every other creature)


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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2011 at 20:33    Image of day on 22 Sep 2011

Couldn't resist this elegant if aggressive female blackbird. Whatever was to the right was out of frame.


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Image of day on 07 Feb 2005

Hen Blackbird just taken off from the log feeding area.


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