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Bloody, buggering blackbird......

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Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:03

Too hard to explain the set up - briefly, i have a small holding where anything goes. I also have an enclosed garden for me. Me and the cat. And sometimes the dogs.
I also have a blackbird who has decided to adopt me. I watched him fledge and he has never left.
He pretends to be dead. No word of a lie, he lies on the ground with his head twisted at an awkward angle and his eyes open. 'Oh shit' i think, and run to get a poo bag to dispose of him in (his shroud, you understand), only to find the little fucker standing, staring me down defiantly.
He sits. I shit you not, SITS, on oldest retrievers back. For hours at a time. He follows me when i go to feed the goats.
Today, i find him inside, quite happily sitting on the dogs bed. The cat is asleep, 3 feet away from him. Briefly raised his head when i came in, cast a dirty look at blackbird and went back to sleep.
FFS, i feed the masses. I have a hoard of animals, mine, fostered and dumped on me. Now I have a bloody blackbird that the cat just wont eat (JOKE folks).

On the serious side, i cannot deal with flapping birds indoors, they seriously freak me out. Apart from keeping doors closed, I guess there is nothing else I can do?
Pic of little shit, just for entertainment value

Bloody, buggering blackbird......
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Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:04

Oh, and he is waiting for me to open the door on that pic!

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TheQueef · 29/06/2019 15:07

Nice garden Smile
We have Barry the blackbird and true enough he thinks he is a family member.
Old lady cat 🐱 ignores him but indoor cat flips.
He pecks the window at her.

TooOldForThisWhoCares · 29/06/2019 15:09

I think this is wonderful. I want an annoying blackbird. Actually I don't because my cats would definitely eat him.

StumpyinSomerset · 29/06/2019 15:12

Awwww love him. I have one that likes to be my alarm clock in the morning.

EggWrap · 29/06/2019 15:16

Sorry. I'm team BB (black bird)
This is your life now. Just submit. And buy BB some meal worms.

BooksAreMyOnlyFriends · 29/06/2019 15:19

We need more pics and a blackbird naming thread.

SleepWarrior · 29/06/2019 15:23

He sounds fab and very entertaining, sorry!

flourella · 29/06/2019 15:25

I love blackbirds! They are the best singers. And they like to sunbathe, so that's probably what the awkward-looking, motionless, "playing dead" business is. But I've never heard of one hitching a ride on a dog or keeping a cat company indoors!

WeaselsRising · 29/06/2019 15:26

Couldn't resist

The Blackbird Song

Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:26

@EggWrap the mealworms are probably why he is here😣
He is just so, well, tame...... he has just had a bath and is now having afternoon tea. DH reckons I treat BB ( and every other animal i have) better than him and has no idea why he stays with me.
BB is now in the apple tree. He keeps taking dog hair(i have basket in the tree and put dofg hair i groom in it for bird nesting), but God only knows what he is doing with it. There is no Mrs BB.
At least he is not dead. Three times in the past fortnight the little fecker has had me with that one. The first time, I even went out armed with...ahem... something to finish him off with, if he was past revival. Every time, he springs to his feet and trots off.
He bloody walks away from me. No fear at all.
Bird seed. Thats all I will put out. Bugger the mealworms. When he learns to behave, he can have them back🤣

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Soola · 29/06/2019 15:27

He is the reincarnation of someone you know or a person who believes he can trust you!

Try talking to him.

BooksAreMyOnlyFriends · 29/06/2019 15:28

Pml at the blackbird song!

Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:28

A name would be good.

At the moment he is called 'Buggering'.

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youllhavehadyourtea · 29/06/2019 15:30

haha! Amaing. This is the bird equivalent of the Neighbours Thug Cat thread -
I only have Thug Slugs who have decided to adopt me and my garden.

ENjoy your blackbird!

Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:31

@WeaselsRising The Wurzels - brilliant!

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HelenaJustina · 29/06/2019 15:31

The blackbird in our garden is a bugger because he is so fecking loud! I know he’s being territorial but he properly goes for it when the dog wanders past.

MyFokMarelize · 29/06/2019 15:31

This is so lovely! I wish I had a blackbird like yours. I do have a male one with his lovely brown lady blackbird but they're quite timid.
I like Buggering for a name Grin

youllhavehadyourtea · 29/06/2019 15:31

*amazing

magicstar1 · 29/06/2019 15:31

Awww he’s great. My parents had a pair of blackbirds in their garden, they nested and had babies there. One day a cat got to the nest and one of the baby birds, and the blackbird mother flew down to the kitchen screaming for my mother to come and help. She ran out and got rid of the cat and managed to save the baby. The parents would come and sing for her all the time. They’re lovely creatures.

Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:33

@Soola I have spoken to him. We have had long, one sided conversations about appropriate behaviour.
Problem is, he just looks at me like i am an idiot.

I probably am.......

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BooksAreMyOnlyFriends · 29/06/2019 15:33

Cat is probably biding his time. Buggering blackbird will be served up headless at your feet when you least expect it.

NottonightJosepheen · 29/06/2019 15:36

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Toooldtobearsed2 · 29/06/2019 15:37

I am not a huge bird enthusiat, know very little about them, but he has stolen my heart.

I have loads of feeders, nesting boxes, bird baths etc and we get a lot of birds, from tiny tits to jackdaws(who are hilarious). But this little blackbird is something special.

He is still sitting in the apple tree. Eyeing up the open back door. The cat is on the bench, dirctly under said tree and gives not one jot for Buggering.

Off to do feeds and waterings.... God, its hot!

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flourella · 29/06/2019 15:38

Buggering is a perfectly good name.

A male blackbird with no tail used to have my dad's front garden as part of his territory and we'd see him almost everyday for a good few years. Everything I've read suggests that birds who lose their tails grow them back in the next moult, but perhaps this one was born that way because he never had one. I fancied I could see a tiny pink bald patch when he ran away!

UrsulaPandress · 29/06/2019 15:41

We used to have a resident blackbird called Long John Silver. He had a malformed foot/claw and looked like he had been a few rounds with the local feline bruiser. He lived in the garden for years.

He didn't come in the house though. Unlike a young grey squirrel the other evening when all the doors were open ...