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"martin" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:42:48 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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Sue da Nimm27/2/04 4:59
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We've got three pairs sharing our plot which is about 320ft long by
120ft
wide, with a hedge border and a copse beyond.
They have clearly defined territories, with one pair regularly coming
to
the
kitchen windowsill for tidbits.
The male in the "copse-end" pair is very distinctive because he is
mottled
white. (Melanistic?)
We have seen three together on occasions - probably offspring rather
than
pairs mingling.


We have several in different parts of the Nursery and garden - you can
see
them together but apart, as it were. But the blackbirds! They're as
bad
or
worse than robins. One gets inside a glasshouse and one is outside and
they
go at each other hammer and tongs against the glass. The other day, I
saw
two trying to kill each other, I swear and I clapped my hands so that
both
flew off, overturning a 1l. pot of Euphorbia as they went. Those
critters
are vicious and we have a lot of them!

My male blackbird follows me into the garage (where I keep my birdseed)
every time I open the door. He now eats sunflower seeds from my hand.

If your blackbird becomes too tame, watch out for cats!

I know. It's a bind. There are 6 cats in the vicinity and my garden is
their stamping ground. I keep trying to maim them with my catapult, but my
aim is not good enough.

Jackdaws are probably our most intelligent birds, they always feed in
pairs, one keeps a look out, whilst the other eats.

They are also the most voracious birds known to man. Whenever I hang up a
fatty cake for the birds, the jackdaws polish it off in quarter of an hour.
(I love them, even though they are expensive friends)

Franz