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Blackbird seems exhausted

  • 24-06-2012 5:04pm
    #1
    Drummerboy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭


    I've been watching a blackbird in the garden all day. It looks tired and disheveled. When I go to pick it up it flies gingerly up on to the garden wall. Then it comes back and lies down in a sunny part of the garden. It looks like its dying. Is there anything I can do.


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  • #2
    Bsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭Bsal


    The Blackbird that was nesting in my garden has started moulting and is doing alot of sun bathing on the shed roof, I think this is what you maybe seeing too.


  • #3
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    yeah sounds like it is sun bathing - wings out and tail spread.

    Mark


  • #4
    Drummerboy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Drummerboy2


    Found the bird dead in the garden today. Strange that he kept coming back to the same spot before he passed away.


  • #5
    Bsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭Bsal


    Thats sad news, hopefully it was just old age.


  • #6
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Yeah prob an old bird id say.

    My 8 year old rescued a baby black bird from a dog in the estate 4 weeks ago, it couldnt fly or feed itself so it was taken in and fed with a Syringe and then into worms and other bits, we let it out the back to learn to fly and it just flew around the garden a while and came back in to sleep :rolleyes: this evening it went on its way after over an hour of flying around the garden :) prob be back tomorrow tho!


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