Saturday 23 May 2020

Attacked from Above and Below

This large suet log has been hanging in the garden for weeks without any takers.

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All of a sudden, now there are hungry youngsters to feed, it is being attacked from above and below.

As well as the inevitable Starlings there has been the occasional visit from a Rook to attack it from above:

Rook

A bit of jittery video, hand held looking through the kitchen window which was in full sunlight:



The attack from below is from a Blackbird:

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He flies straight up, grabs a beak full and drops down again.

Blackbird

I have watched Blackbirds use the same tactic to grab the berries from ivy hedges when there is no place for them to land on the plant.

2 comments:

  1. I do like corvids but they can be buggers with weak lambs.

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  2. Big crowd of jackdaws circled over my flat the other day, can't think why

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