Thrushes

With this hot weather (31 degrees in the shade & 36 degrees in the full sun at 5pm)baking the soil rock hard it must be extremely testing times for Song Thrush & Blackbirds who find a high percentage their food source in the earth, but some how they are managing to find food as our resident birds are still feeding young in the nest in neighbouring gardens & can be seen on our lawn gathering food & flying up & over the hedge. Still best to leave them uncut 'til the end of August, to offer the young in the nest protect from predators.

Song Thrush on the parched earth, may have trouble finding worms, but is still doing well on the snail front judging by the number of broken shells on it's two regular 'anvil' sites.











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