In article , Paul
D.Smith writes
All,

We have a bird which looks very like a slightly dark female blackbird which
happily eats its way through apples that we put out for our blackcap
warblers.

This seems to be a single bird which does this (or perhaps it's just the
females) and never having seem a fruit loving blackbird before we tried long
and hard to find another bird which it might be, but with no success.

So do other readers know of such behaviour or have suggestions what this
bird might be if it's not a blackbird?

Blackbirds very frequently eat apples, and are probably the most likely
culprits if you find apples are being attacked. They will eat them on
the ground, or from the tree if there is somewhere convenient to perch.
We have apples trained over a pergola, and the blackbirds attack the
ones that are close to the bars of the pergola.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"