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Blackbird egg! (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter KenM
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Simon Wates
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Down here in Portugal many females are sitting now.
KenM
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As a lad when the baby boomers were abroad in the local woods, the competition was to see who could find the first “Songies” nest from early March onwards, however “Blackies” were’nt normally found on eggs till late March/early April if memory serves....4-5 weeks early at least....things must be hotting-up. :eek!:
Ken, I don't have the details to hand, but I'm sure there's the odd record of Blackbirds being found nesting in mid-winter. One female sitting behind shop front fascia surrounded by Christmas lighting in Ireland ten years ago springs to mind!
KenM
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Brought back fond memories Graham, of risking life and limb up and down trees, with a mattress of Hawthorn and Bramble beneath....a-a-a-h those were the days! Back to subject, yes I’m sure there are early records, seem to recollect a picture of a Song Thrush sitting in a nest between the orange and the red of a traffic signal a few years back in the DT, and that too was unseasonally early.
Cheers
Yeah i've a faint tickle about that one in the back of my mind too, now you come to mention it. But I can't for the life of me remember what you mean by DT! Is it perhaps: "... in the Doctor's Tardis...?"
KenM
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Daily Telegraph :t:
