European Gardening: Birds in the garden Part 2., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
As dry as it's been the birds still have to find food in the ground to feed their young, we have had a couple of small showers yesterday and today but not enough to measure in the rain gauge.

I was in the garden with my camera, this female blackbird took no notice. She appears in the morning as soon as I open the door looking for cat food when I feed Straypuss but he doesn't always appear so I throw them any I have left inside. The pair of them ganged up on Straypuss one day, the male went in front of his face trying to scare him off the food! Luckily he takes no notice.

She was listening to the ground with her head cocked, must be able to hear the chafer grubs chewing roots. They are large grubs, curled around, this one is or was almost mature, she pecks away until she gets it. She ran off briefly to feed a baby and returned to try again.