Blackbirds fighting !

[Rake Aboot]

What is it with them
My garden is a battleground, to the extent I though a bird had been caught by a cat given the feathers .

I even went out and shouted at them to stop ! and they just looked at me wagging my finger at them like I was mad ( don’t even fly away , sat two feet from me on top of the kennel)

Honestly I’m exasperated, I was knocking on the patio door at them at 6 am today !!

God knows when they find time to eat cause it’s a relentless chase and scrap !

My wife now thinks I’ve went completely mental .

 

[VSS]

Maybe your wife is making a valid point?

 

[old keeper]

Two nests in close proximity

 

[Smellydog]

Get similar in my back garden. They know it's a good spot in as much cats are robustly deterred!

 

[WW.]

Be glad you have them. Our blackbirds vanished since Usutu hit.

 

[doric_prince]

What is it with them
My garden is a battleground, to the extent I though a bird had been caught by a cat given the feathers .

I even went out and shouted at them to stop ! and they just looked at me wagging my finger at them like I was mad ( don’t even fly away , sat two feet from me on top of the kennel)

Honestly I’m exasperated, I was knocking on the patio door at them at 6 am today !!

God knows when they find time to eat cause it’s a relentless chase and scrap !

My wife now thinks I’ve went completely mental .

I have witnessed similar. They go after the smaller birds, robins, will ferocity. Must be a territorial thing this time of year.

We have long tailed tits this time of year constantly are attacking their own reflection in widows. Have chipped off the paint on the wooden frames with all of their dedicated violence . Mad little buggers.

 

[Rake Aboot]

At first it looked like two juvenile birds but way too early yet so it’s two females knocking lumps out of each other
I thought they would be too busy brooding now to be scrapping

 

[Rake Aboot]

Maybe your wife is making a valid point?

This and ,,

Two nests in close proximity

This are the two likeliest answers off course.

 

[old keeper]

I've got two blackbird nests within 50 yards of each other, and the cock birds are constantly having dust-ups.

 

[Longstrider]

I have started to find discarded halves of blackbird egg shells on my walks already so the birds are getting 'proper touchy' about what others are anywhere near their nests.

 

[foxinmad]

Watching a few blackies picking lots of worms at work today when the machine operator was backfilling excavations on a grass area.
Few robins were in the mix also, good feeding for them.