European Gardening: Birds in the garden Part 2., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Wonderful shots bonitin, you were lucky to get mom and dad both landing together.
The babies do look amused, their parents must have warned them about a human who tries to make pidgeon calls!

There is an imprint on a back upstairs window of what looks like a wood pidgeon with outspread wings and fanned tail, with visible breast feathers and wing and tail feathers. It must have run into it and lived, it left a whitish waxy looking imprint, I've never seen that before.

The blackbirds are now asking for baby food donations three times a day, I was going to the greenhouse when the male came behind me and looked at my partner who was just outside the door, it went to within a couple of feet of him. I got a call to go back and feed the birds first!

They took it in turns to get the food and take it to the baby, while one was feeding it the other was getting food, they seem to only have the one. I guess they have to do it as quickly as possible to get all the food, another blackbird came on the scene and quickly got shooed away.

I managed a shot of the female feeding the baby but only got it from behind, it looks to have food on top of it's head. They trust me even when the baby is there, I'll be asked to babysit next!