Gill Osborne
Well-known member
Just a query for anyone out there who knows anything about Blackbirds (Turdus merula). Today,on and off for most of the day, we've had six or seven blackbirds feeding in the garden...tossing fallen leaves aside,catching worms,helping themselves to mealworms and pecking at the apples I've started putting out for them.
Our garden is just 25ft X 15ft so is not huge!!! What I was wondering is...why, all of a sudden, am I getting so many blackies in the garden all at once? I always thought they were a territorial species! Of the six that are actually in the garden right now (Saturday,2.45pm) one is a brown female,one is a black male with a yellow beak and the other four are extremely dark, almost black it appears, with dark beaks....this year's youngsters? Or do we have a lot of migrant blackies coming to the UK for the winter?
Brilliant to watch them...they are so entertaining!
Our garden is just 25ft X 15ft so is not huge!!! What I was wondering is...why, all of a sudden, am I getting so many blackies in the garden all at once? I always thought they were a territorial species! Of the six that are actually in the garden right now (Saturday,2.45pm) one is a brown female,one is a black male with a yellow beak and the other four are extremely dark, almost black it appears, with dark beaks....this year's youngsters? Or do we have a lot of migrant blackies coming to the UK for the winter?
Brilliant to watch them...they are so entertaining!