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Image Taken on 04 Apr 2015 at 15:16    Image of day on 21 May 2015

The female Blackbird seems to have collected a mix of dry grass & sodden weeds from the edge of the pond.


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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2014 at 16:08    Image of day on 19 Mar 2014

BBC 'Winterwatch' seems to think birds don't like apple!
But they put out typical barely-ripe pristine apples as bait. What the birds want is the soft old stuff humans don't like!


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Image Taken on 04 Feb 2014 at 08:56    Image of day on 19 Mar 2014

Another day - another windfall apple - you can see the multiple pecking this one has received.


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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 06 Aug 2017 at 08:47    Image of day on 21 Sep 2017

The patch of land that spent a few years under a rotting heap of straw bales is providing a good hunting ground for many species. You can't 'sneak up' on the patch, so only human-tolerant birds get their pics taken there. Here one of the female Blackbirds gave us a suspicious look and then carried on probing the loose soil. We see her many days that we walk by this patch on the track perhaps 20m away.


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Image Taken on 22 Mar 2022 at 05:31    Image of day on 23 Apr 2022

A female Blackbird double-footed hopping over the site. The number of different 'walking' gaits used by birds is fascinating.


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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 Taken on 04 Jun 2017 at 14:42    Image of day on 31 Jul 2017

A female Blackbird decorating, or being decorated by, Buttercups and Clover.


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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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Image Taken on 15 Jan 2024 at 14:53    Image of day on 09 Feb 2024

Here a female Blackbird was searching inside this Hawthorn tree, undoubtedly looking for berries. In this pic we can see two Haws top and bottom left.


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Image Taken on 12 Dec 2019 at 11:46    Image of day on 17 Jan 2020

A drenched female Blackbird has to come out to feed regardless of the rain. Small birds don't have great reserved to sit out bad weather.


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Image Taken on 14 Dec 2019 at 10:03    Image of day on 17 Jan 2020

Did we mention it's been raining?


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Image Taken on 11 May 2015 at 18:23    Image of day on 10 Jul 2015

A female blackbird makes an elegant landing, raising the tail a second or so after touchdown.


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Image of day on 08 Jan 2006

By chance the next batch of photos caught the (probably the same) Female Blackbird landing at the same site (4 days and 142 frames later in real time - hurray for digital cameras rather than a roll of film a day).


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Image Taken on 03 Jan 2010 at 10:36    Image of day on 11 Feb 2010

The strained pulp from making blackberry jelly (from frozen blackberries stored raw in the freezer is a big hit with the animals in cold weather.


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Image Taken on 29 Apr 2021 at 07:02    Image of day on 02 Jun 2021

As the first beams of sunlight reach the meadow, the female Blackbird is already out and about starting the day.


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Image Taken on 22 Jan 2021 at 07:48    Image of day on 19 Feb 2021

Female Blackbird demonstrates her 'The Exorcist' style twisting head movement.


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Image Taken on 05 Dec 2012 at 10:30    Image of day on 30 Dec 2012

A very nice female blackbird surrounded by the dregs of the minor snowfall.


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Image Taken on 09 Feb 2006 at 17:25    Image of day on 17 Feb 2006

Blackbird female standing on one leg on the much photographed log.


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Image Taken on 11 Jan 2019 at 12:33    Image of day on 13 Feb 2019

A patch of loose soil (where the collapsing straw bales spent some years rotting) is a regular hunting patch for this female Blackbird.
Here she kept still long enough here for a little portrait.


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