I just want to share this with you.
For years now we have had blackbirds tapping the kitchen window for currants. This morning, a thrush did the same, we were amazed.
Maybe not unusual, but it made my morning.
Lovely! They're of the same family, so it's quite likely that the thrush has copied the blackbird and now, getting the same reward,it will return. But are you sure it is a thrush and not a juvenile blackbird, copying its parents?
Yes, I am perfectly sure it's a thrush, we have had the young blackies too.
Now then, whilst I am here, another query.
The said blackbird (male) seems to have lost all the feathers from the back of his head/neck. None of the others have lost any feathers that I can see.
Lucky you to have a thrush come like that, lovely birds. I think the blackbird may have been in a fight. I often see the odd bedraggled garden bird with missing head feathers after a fight !
I didn't realise they were aggressive either until out driving one day I saw a group of female blackbirds pinning down another one and attacking it! I at least helped the poor thing by stopping and shooing them away...probably for them to have another go somewhere else...but hopefully she got away that time.
A thrush - how lovely since they're rare these days. Used to see hundreds when I was a kid (in the Forties and Fifties) but unfortunately the five-fold increase in "darling little ***" since then has decimated the songbird population.