Blackbird feeding one of his babies

Sorry I have no photo but I just wanted to tell you of a lovely experience I had on Saturday.
I have an Acer tree just a few feet from my window, that I can see when on my Pc. I put feeders, containing fat balls out there for the many different tits that come here to feed. When the robins came they struggled to eat the fat balls so I hung them in a position where they could reach them whilst perching on a branch... and it worked.

On Saturday I saw a daddy blackbird taking food from the fat balls, while his fledgling baby was hopping about on other branches, with its mouth open. I watched them for about 5 mins and, although the dad couldn't get much out of the feeder, he kept working till his baby was satisfied.

I know they do it all the time, but it was lovely to watch and made me smile.

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Good for you Twink, by encouraging nature you get the benefits first hand.

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If you had been here Nom I could have had a nice photo to post!

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I love watching the birds, I have a blackbird in the garden with a deformed wing , he has been with me a couple of years
and is quite tame

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Lovely isn't it and nice that you witnessed it.

One of the funniest things I have seen in the garden was a Starling feeding a cuckoo. The baby Cuckoo was twice the size of the Starling and just sat there with its mouth open.

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They have just been back but the baby has all it feathers and is just waiting for it's tail to grow,so they won't be here for much longer

I always think that wildlife are much better parents than humans, because they have to find food for their young.....humans often just go to the supermarket so our lives are easy.

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I have a crow with a similar problem...but he is cheeky! He sits on the barn roof making a lot of noise, till I take food out for him.

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Actually, I think the Cuckoo has the right idea, have them but dump them onto someone else.

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I love my Wildlife here, I feed my Birds twice a day, but at the moment its the big birds that are so greedy and taking most of the food, i.e. Jackdaws, Magpies, Jays etc.

I have a Bird table which I put, cubed bread, millworms and insects, then I have Nuts in the container and Fat balls in the other container.

I have a bird bath, which the Sparrows get in and have a good bath, normally five at a time, but yesterday a Starling came from no where and had a bath on his own.

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