Baby blackbird

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Earlier today I couldn’t help but notice there was a bit of a commotion going on in my greenhouse – I went out to investigate and found a baby blackbird in there.

Although the doors were open it was getting itself in a bit of a tizz and repeatedly bashing into the glass at the opposite end to the doors. I eventually got it out of the greenhouse and was relieved that its dad was around, making his own fuss about all the goings-on lol :o)

Problem solved I thought and got on with watering my tomatoes. But when I went back to the house, what did I find in the conservatory … the same baby blackbird! Honestly, dad blackbird you need to do better with teaching this one. Or maybe it just didn’t like the rain very much?

I tried staying out of the conservatory for a while to see if it’d find its own way out, but the poor thing was just getting itself in a tizz again, trying to fly into the same bit of glass over and over:

Eventually it wore itself out. Looking a bit sorry for itself here:

Given it had already pooed on my conservatory floor and windowsill and I didn’t fancy any more of that on my cream furniture cushions, I decided to try to pick it up and take it outside. It let me do that ok, so I put it on the lawn so I could watch it, as the neighbour’s cats have been prowling around my shrubs so I didn’t want to put it somewhere that it might be in any more danger. Plus, its dad was still around so would see it there.

It then sat on the grass for what felt like ages and I was worried it’d hurt its wing or something:

But eventually it sort-of-flew off into the shrubs:

Phew! I don’t know who was more stressed by it all, the baby, the dad, or me?!! All doors have now been closed until baby has learnt a bit more …

• 16 Jul, 2012
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