Pinging and Clobbering

The new crop of baby blackbirds is pinging everywhere. As usual, no tails, so can only just about fly. Most of the time. Landing is variable. Always. Mum and Dad are keeping a very close eye on them.

The previous brood still hangs around begging to be fed. Must say that the parents are getting very fed up with them and want their own lives back. Yesterday 2 of them were feeding on the ground from the tray when the larger decided it didn't like sibling. Clobbered it hard a few times 'til it rushed off to complain to Dad. Who clobbered it too. Life is hard sometimes.

TB is lying in wait for the crow. Something tells me that bird is too intelligent to get caught out more than once. We shall see.