Blackbird Brings in Food

Male Blackbird Brings in Food ~ Turdus merula

This blackbird is being a good father, bringing food to his nestlings in their balcony-nest near Newington Green. As this is the pair's second brood of the year, they must both have been kept very busy hunting 'for food to satisfy the cravings of the almost fledged young' as Mary Wollstonecraft describes in her children's tale 'The Lark's Nest'.

This male blackbird has probably brought in some small worms which, along with insects and caterpillars, are the nestlings' favourite foods.

Photo: Clemence Biardeau

June 2010