Thrush -

[ferlew]

I just want to share this with you.
For years now we have had blackbirds tapping the kitchen window for currants. This morning, a thrush did the same, we were amazed.
Maybe not unusual, but it made my morning.

[hellywelly4]

Wonderful!

[rowanwitch]

Perhaps they are raisin their young to do the same...

[FredPuli43]

Lovely! They're of the same family, so it's quite likely that the thrush has copied the blackbird and now, getting the same reward,it will return. But are you sure it is a thrush and not a juvenile blackbird, copying its parents?

[ferlew]

Yes, I am perfectly sure it's a thrush, we have had the young blackies too.
Now then, whilst I am here, another query.
The said blackbird (male) seems to have lost all the feathers from the back of his head/neck. None of the others have lost any feathers that I can see.

[viv38]

Lucky you to have a thrush come like that, lovely birds. I think the blackbird may have been in a fight. I often see the odd bedraggled garden bird with missing head feathers after a fight !

[rowanwitch]

having seen two male blackbirds going for it I am surprised that's all the feathers he's lost they can get really aggressive with rivals

[ferlew]

Ah thanks, I didn't realise they were so aggressive.

[daisya]

I didn't realise they were aggressive either until out driving one day I saw a group of female blackbirds pinning down another one and attacking it! I at least helped the poor thing by stopping and shooing them away...probably for them to have another go somewhere else...but hopefully she got away that time.

[Canary42]

A thrush - how lovely since they're rare these days. Used to see hundreds when I was a kid (in the Forties and Fifties) but unfortunately the five-fold increase in "darling little ***" since then has decimated the songbird population.

[Canary42]

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