Not quiet over the frost stage up here in the frozen North, but it is getting warmer & I am starting to look forward to summer. Cut the lawn for the first time today, so now it will be the never ending task of it’s weekly trim, weather permitting of course. So that is a first for 2018.
Another first & it is normally our near tame Blackbirds, but this year it’s the Thrush. The discovery of a nest with young in it, so first of the season for that. We know somewhere there are baby Blackbirds as well as the parents are wondering around with a mouthful of worms. To add to the excitement this is the first year since we moved here that the Thrush has actually nested in our garden, we feed them all year round & up until this year they have always nested in the surrounding shrubs & we have never seen the babes fledge, hopefully this year we will.
Shall have to continue todays theme, the first time I have managed to get a photo of young Thrushes on the nest, a shot that was hard to get as there was a lot of foliage in front of the nest, as you can see from the first shot of Mum on the nest. If you can see her as she was so well camouflaged sitting there.
Hence in the second shot of the babes there are a lot of out of focus twigs around them, but I had no intention of disturbing them more than I had to to get the shot.
My biggest worry is that the Sparrowhawk must also have wee ones as it is catching a fair few birds on my feeders on a very regular basis at the moment & small near helpless baby Thrushes would be an easy target for them.
