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Apr 2020
9:58am, 12 Apr 2020
8,233 posts
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BaronessBL
Our lockdown begins today in even more seriousness than before. I've just watched what I think was the third of three blackbird fledglings take his (or her) first mighty leap into the outside world. Sadly his much bolder and braver big brother (or sister) has already paid the ultimate price for his earlier curiousity and Wanda will now not be allowed in the garden (unless on a very short lead) for about a week. There is now a notice on the back door as a reminder: 'Stay At Home, Protect the Blackbirds, Save Lives' - It's a pity Wanda can't read though!
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Apr 2020
10:26am, 12 Apr 2020
30,685 posts
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halfpint
Oh dear. Love the sign though.
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Apr 2020
12:22pm, 12 Apr 2020
29,841 posts
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LazyDaisy
Oh dear Wanda, you're not a cat! Leave those birds alone 
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Apr 2020
12:29pm, 12 Apr 2020
15,960 posts
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Sharkie
We don't need assassination
We don't need no bird control
No savage staffie in the garden
Hey, Wanda!
Leave those chicks alone!
( I love Wanda, but I love blackbirds too)
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Apr 2020
1:53pm, 12 Apr 2020
8,234 posts
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BaronessBL
Excellent Sharkie! We love blackbirds too so the garden is out of bounds for a week by which time they should be able to fly and with any luck they will perhaps fly into next door's garden... we also had a song about the same subject last year - from memory I think it was....
On the first day of Whitsun my Staffie brought to me..
Five Fle - edge - lings
No, make that six
Three blackbirds
Two little sparrows
And a starling in the bay tree
Sadly it wasn't far from the truth either but we are all trying hard to keep the numbers down for this year (well the humans are trying hard anyway.... Wanda is trying to keep the numbers down too, but in a different way to us....)
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Apr 2020
6:20pm, 12 Apr 2020
3,093 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Fortunately the squirrel is too quick for him!
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Apr 2020
6:20pm, 12 Apr 2020
3,094 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Ollie (Springer) just carried on sunbathing "whatever"
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Apr 2020
9:49pm, 12 Apr 2020
3,097 posts
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ThorntonRunner
It's taking the p*ss now
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Apr 2020
10:11pm, 12 Apr 2020
4,031 posts
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Alice the Camel
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Apr 2020
10:47pm, 12 Apr 2020
8,239 posts
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BaronessBL
There would definitely be a Staffie shaped hole in that glass and a pile of grey fluff on the floor if that was our house!
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