Had she listened this morning, she would have heard a yodelling blackbird.
One is reminded of the five and twenty blackbirds, who sang before the king.
Is he further aware that blackbirds and thrushes are mainly beneficial to agriculture?
The ornithologists tell me that even the bird song of the blackbird is to mark out his territory.
It would be rather dreadful if every small boy who took a thrush's or blackbird's egg could be hauled before the police court and fined.
If we are to protect the sheld-duck, what about the swans, sparrows, thrushes, blackbirds and skylarks?
I have never seen blackbirds bred in captivity, although they probably are from time to time, but they certainly are not self-sustaining.
The number of birds reported as taken are: blackbird 59, skylark 278, black-headed gull 1, song thrush 2, redwing 8 and fieldfare 10.
