Certainly looks like a baby Sheila, well done! it is very difficult sometimes, as the babies can look like the female! I had one in my garden i thought was a baby, and it was collecting food!! so must have been the female!Lovely pics, especially the one in that magic stream of yours x
Yeah, got to agree it's a baby blackbird. Adult females have a yellow beak (not sure about those that are 1 year old though, the males seem to have one part yellow, part brown).
Magic shots yet again Sheila on this post and the previous, I would ID that little fellow as a young blackie too!!. Wait until the woodpigeons find the tray on your feeder they are quite comical as they struggle to hang on!!! Jayne
For all who have lost.
GODS LENT CHILD by Sue Coad
I'll lend you for a little while a child of mine God said,for you to love thee while he lives and mourn for when he's dead.It may be six or seven years of forty-two or three,but will you,till I call him back,take care of him for me?
He'll bring his charms to gladden you,and should his stay be brief,you'll always have his memories as solace in your grief.
I cannot promise he will stay,since all from earth return,but there are lessons taught below I want this child to learn.
I've looked the whole world over in my search for teachers true,and of all the folk that crowd life's lane I have chosen you.
Now will you give him all your love and not think the labour vain nor hate me when I come to take this lent child back again.
I fancy that I heard them say "Dear God Thy Will Be Done"For all the joys this child will bring,the risk of grief we'll run.
We will shelter him with tenderness,we'll love him while we may and for all the happiness we've known,we'll ever-grateful stay.
But should the Angels call him much sooner than we'd planned,we will brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand.
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spot on with the ID today! well done.
cheers Warren learning something eh!
Sheila
Certainly looks like a baby Sheila, well done! it is very difficult sometimes, as the babies can look like the female! I had one in my garden i thought was a baby, and it was collecting food!! so must have been the female!Lovely pics, especially the one in that magic stream of yours x
Yeah, got to agree it's a baby blackbird. Adult females have a yellow beak (not sure about those that are 1 year old though, the males seem to have one part yellow, part brown).
Lovely photo of the juvenile Blackbird Sheila, nice to see the juvenile Goldfinch too and I'm still envious of the Tree Sparrows!
Definitely juvenile Blackbird Sheila :-)
Magic shots yet again Sheila on this post and the previous, I would ID that little fellow as a young blackie too!!. Wait until the woodpigeons find the tray on your feeder they are quite comical as they struggle to hang on!!!
Jayne
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