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Nice thing to see from the comfort of the house.
Yes. It’s the second time I saw one in the garden. The first was 50years ago.
Back then I was only just getting interested in birds. I saw this feathery dollop on the lawn surrounded by our cats!
Dashed out and grabbed the bird. At first glance I thought it was a bird of prey because it had a huge curved beak. But as I examined it the bird shook its head and its ‘beak’ fell off. It had obviously nose dived in the lawn and grown a mud extension to its beak. Took it to a lady up the coast that rehabilitated injured birds. She couldn’t find anything wrong with it except it was very malnourished. So she fed it up in her outdoor aviary and after a few weeks at the height of the migration period in good weather, she released it. Don’t know if it made it to Africa…never sent her a postcard.
Nice to see though…but the blackbirds didn’t like it. Maybe THEY thought it was a bird of prey? How misguided!
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