BBC v BBC!!
We are enjoying watching our resident pair of blackbirds dashing to and fro feeding their nestlings. They seem to average a visit with a full beak every 10-15 minutes from dawn to dusk. Sometimes they forage in our back garden and we can see whether there is a beak-full of caterpillar or a beak-full of grass seed heads.
But there is a problem. The nest is in the laurel tree and, clearly, we cannot cut it back until they have fledged. The laurel tree has grown this spring to the point where it is between our satellite dish and the satellite signal... so some of the time the picture quality is horrible, and at other times we have no signal at all.
This means the score currently is -
Black Bird Chicks 1 - British Broadcasting Corporation 0.
But there is a problem. The nest is in the laurel tree and, clearly, we cannot cut it back until they have fledged. The laurel tree has grown this spring to the point where it is between our satellite dish and the satellite signal... so some of the time the picture quality is horrible, and at other times we have no signal at all.
This means the score currently is -
Black Bird Chicks 1 - British Broadcasting Corporation 0.