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Cock Fight

I put some food out on the ground feeder this morning and the resident cock blackbird was straight there as usual. Not quite as tame as a robin but he is sometimes on the feeder before I can get back into the house.

Today, however, a second male came down to the feeder a minute or two later. Normally this would involve a bit of flapping and one would fly off but not this morning. They really went for each other trying to peck and grapple and one ended up on his back with the other pecking at him. It looked as if a small black bird of prey had pounced.

After some struggling one of the birds flew off. There had been so much rolling around that I couldn't tell which one.

In the front garden blue and great tits are regulars on the fat feeder but so far there has been nothing of special interest.

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