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Menoturals; Saturday Sounds
Yet another of the UK's famous songbirds is the Blackbird... though, as you'll see, the female is actually brown. The offspring are also brown but with spotted chests until the adult feathers arrive. This is a delightful wee video, showing female, male and junior. There are a couple of Blackies around the Hutch, but not as many as I would like to see and hear.
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We have blackbirds and red winged blackbirds. Several of the later nest in a maple in one of the open air atriums, and all year we have the pleasure of watching redwings hatch, grow up and not exactly leave.
ReplyDeleteThe birds that Joanne refers to above are in a different family (Icteridae) from European Blackbird (Turdidae). The latter are renowned singers, the former not so much. The outstanding representative of the Turdidae in North America is American Robin (Turdus migratorius) which is not a robin at all, but a thrush, having been named “Robin” by nostalgic early European settlers remembering the “Robin Red Breast” of their homeland. If you look at European Blackbird and American Robin in silhouette it’s impossible to tell one from the other. They are both fine songsters, however.
ReplyDeleteGood singers!
ReplyDeleteQuite a few blackbirds around my corner of Aberdeen. One never tires of hearing them.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail (currently in Torridon, where song thrushes seem to be more common).
Hello Yam,
ReplyDeleteThe Blackbird does have a delightful song. I enjoyed the video, I was happy to hear them myself while visiting Ireland.
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Love their happy music!
ReplyDeleteDon't they sing beautifully (they are a variety of thrush after all)? We had one years ago that terrorized Mr T - used to dive bomb him in the back yard. We had to set up an assault course of air raid shelters! They can be feisty and determined wee birds.
ReplyDeleteWhat talented vocalist the Blackies are. I'm remember the nursery rhyme ...is it one and twenty black bird or are my numbers off?
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
Just checked it is four and twenty and then there is this song
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08s1i5h2xFw
I loved to hear them sing, Faith, however, looked at me like, could you please turn that off. Then she turned her whole body away. So funny. Blackbirds and ravens are the most common birds here, not sure how similar the U.K and U.S. blackbirds are. Something else to Google.
ReplyDeleteI have to wit for spring to hear them again. O what love i to hear them.
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet call. We loved seeing the young one getting his meal.
ReplyDeleteIt's always nice to hear the Blackbird sing. Such a lovely song.
ReplyDeleteour black birds do not have this lovely song/songs. very sweet song and also lovely to look at
ReplyDeleteIt always amazes me how many different songs can indicate may bird emotions!
ReplyDeleteWe used to have lovely shiny blackbirds with their distinctive yellow bills (trailed after by their rather dingy brown ‘female friends’ ) here in our suburban back garden - this was many years ago. Where they’ve disappeared to nobody knows. . There are no starlings here either, they nicked off about the same time.
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