blackbird male

Still going on strong!

Male blackbird on Vernon Park taken wed morning strange?.

A male spotted sat on the washing post in the garden yesterday

Blackbird on the bird bath.

Grumpy looking blackbird in my garden. He was happier after a while when he found my bird feeders!

Male blackbird puffs out his chest and stares me out.

I don't upload many of these, as I mostly see them in poor light (morning and evening), but I thought that I'd add this one to my gallery. Through the window; 920mm zoom - hand-held @ 1/25th second, so not very sharp.

he just would not turn his head just that bit more.

Hi everyone! Long time no see. I've been busy with all kinds of rubbish lately (exams mainly) and have kept delaying posting on here (its too addictive!). Since my last posts I've got a canon 400 f/5.6 prime, which is superb, and I thought i'd start of by posting this male blackbird.

These birds are the undisputed lords of my ground feeders. They don't like sharing with anyone and even Doves and Woodpigeons aren't safe.

Our street-blackbird sunning on the asphalt.

I don't often catch them looking quite this alert - you can even see a bit of a crest.

http://www.tomcharles-photography.co.uk/birdgallery.htm

I had my window open, heard a bird singing, swivelled in my computer chair and right in front of me was this bird, so I slowly reached for my camera and took some pictures while it preened, sang and looked around.

I had my window open, heard a bird singing, swivelled in my computer chair and right in front of me was this bird, so I slowly reached for my camera and took some pictures while it preened, sang and looked around.

I had my window open, heard a bird singing, swivelled in my computer chair and right in front of me was this bird, so I slowly reached for my camera and took some pictures while it preened, sang and looked around.

A shot taken at Pennington Flash which, along with other more recently posted (and a modest number of cherished comments) was it appears lost , according to a reply to the question I posed to notify @birdforum , during the recent site crash which necessitates re-uploading the lost shots...