Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)...
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Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus).
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Common blackbird (Turdus merula). One of the youngsters talking to the Elephant 😊 - interesting to see the size against the elephant compared with the pigeon...
Two of them got into the greenhouse yesterday and dug up all my pot plants and seedlings, they were not very popular. Although I managed to chase one out, I had to catch the second one to put it out of the door. I do not want to put netting over the doorway but I might have to if they return again.
A blackbird can look at an owl 🦉
Thinking up what mischief it can get up to next!!!
Little owl (Athene noctua) the closest I have ever been to 'our' Little Owls. They were very agitated about something and ignoring me. I wonder if there was a snake around, they sounded a bit like a pair of agitated parrots. I have never heard them making such a row. This one was on a piece of metal attached to the electric pylon on the corner of our garden at this stage. The other one was on the barn a bit further away making the same row...
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