Just seen a blackbird with a pigeon hanging from it's mouth.....

[northerner]

It was attacking it and trying to eat it, it was on the roof of my neighbours house. I shouted and blackbird dropped the pigeon.

It is alive and hiding in a bush.

What can I do? Ds wants to rescue him

A blackbird?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the pigeon injured?

You have massive blackbirds then?

Fried pigeon salad anyone?

I'd leave the pigeon alone.
Think the shock of a human dealing with it would kill it anyway.

Are you sure it wasn't a crow?

Yes leave it alone, was it a hooded crow by any chance? Any blackbirds I've seen wouldn't be able to take on a pigeon.

Don't have much knowledge of birds. It was big and black. Could be a crow actually. God how embarassing.....

There was lots of them circling round crowing....

Actually just looked on RSBP website and it looks more like a rook.

Sounds more like a crow. Blackbirds are quite tiny really. Crows eat meat/other birds

...maybe it was a vulture, disguised as a blackbird

.....or a cat in disguise saying "don't mind me mr pidgeon, it's only little old blackbird here".....

maybe the pigeon said something nasty about the rook's parenting choices?

Seriously though, my 4 year old ds saw the pigeon stagger off into the bush and now wants to create animal hospital in my living room.

It's really bothering him.

Do the RSPB save birds or are pigeons considered vermin?

Is there anything on the RSPB website about what to do with an injured bird?
If there is, you could show that to ds.

Tell him it will get better by itself. The times we have tried to intervene with wild casualties have not been successful.

explain to him that some birds and animal eat other animals and it's not you place to interfere.

...or tell him "the naughty big bird was bullying the small bird and that's not nice" contact local branch of RSPB here and if they CAN do something wrap it loosely in a t cloth in a box (with holes in and feel that you've done your good deed for the day.

We had a situation a few years ago when one of our cats attacked a visiting greater spotted woodpecker...I had an overwhelming urge to rescue it (it was before children so maternal instinct must have been kciking in then !!) we took it to the local wild life rescue, they gave it some antibiotics..then came back next day and let it go ....I felt so elated that I had done a good deed........