Hungry Blackbird

[tameblackbirds]

Flew right to my feet yesterday after heavy snow fall and again at 7am this morning. Love it when they feel confident to come for food. A dark billed variety. In January's snow a male BB was actually coming to my bedroom window and clucking at me to come out and feed him.

[tameblackbirds]

Oh and the snow on his bill was after it had finished eating and it began eating the snow, as a drink I presumed.

[Littlesparrow]

The cold weather is bring in a variety of birds to our garden, five blackbirds, a feisty robin,house sparrows, blue tits, chaffinch and wagtail to name a few.

[actionfinch]

brilliant.. we have wagtails and mallards where i work , and there not affraid to get close, the ducks more....
its really nice when it happens, like the robin in my garden.

[healfdan]

I regularly monitor a site, where large numbers of black-headed gulls grab most of the tit bits before other birds get a look in. For this reason I fix crusts and well kneaded bread into the forks and crevices of nearby shrubs and trees. A coot is now wise to this and follows me around eagerly collecting the pieces that fall away. It actually placed one of its large feet on my shoe as it prised out a piece of bread that had become wedged between the lace of my boot. I just love this guy, but I fear that its trusting nature could place it at risk.

[tameblackbirds]

Yes the coots and moorhens on our canal are coming up close to be fed. Share your concern healfdan about their trust, as we all know there are idiots out there that will take advantage of this and could harm them