This is another tatty blackbird with a beakful of grubs. I think this is the one who seems to have lost his tail! Goodness knows what happened to it. Before I have my breakfast in the morning, I always put a load of sultanas and suet pellets on the sun dial in front of the conservatory so that I can watch the birds while we eat our breakfast. The blackbirds often shout at the starlings who muscle in and grab a lot of the food. They work so hard to feed their young
