This baby blackbird was hopping listlessly around our garden yesterday so I took out a saucer of milk (I know it's really for hedgehogs but I didn't know what else to do.) The blackbird was quite oblivious to my offering. I was starting to hope a cat would come along and put it out of its misery but finally it keeled over and is now buried in our garden.
You- know-who, coming round the corner later, was delighted to find an extra treat.
Of course Hazel ---what else could you expect Hazel !! To find a saucer of milk in the garden , in his patch !! who else would it be for but his Lordship !! Bless !! Nice images shame the little bird didn't make it -- but that's nature for you !!
Blackbirds often fly`s out when they are not ready for it. The parents are around and feed them on the ground. The best thing to do , have some water around and try to give them shelter under some bushes and leave it alone. . The parents find him and take care. Or the cat have his day
Lovely collage, but @pyrrhula is right the blackbirds are nidifugous birds and hence they leave the nest early and are still fed by the parents on the ground. Lucky for Jinks there was no hedgehog and lucky for the hedgehog there was Jinks. Milk is poison for hedgehogs, they get very sick from milk you should only feed them water
Beryl, wish I could have captured the look on his face as he first saw it!
Oooo - I never even thought of that!!!! Truly!
The beak of this one looked strange as if it was stuck together with some organic matter so maybe he just starved to death.
That's interesting, thanks, Karin, and maybe a little like people who feed loaves of bread to ducks and swans.