CHEEKY

Isn't it lovely when birds gain enough confidence to come closer, even if all he's after are your sultana's!

 

As nutty as it may sound I do think he'll see you as his friend I once had an old pal..Cyril the squirrel .I always recognised him from the numerous squirrels by the chunk out of his tail, he was a cheeky little chap and would come and sit on my knee and I even caught him in the kitchen on the work top nibbling at a digestive biscuit ..not that I encouraged him mind

 

Reminds me of a few old girlfriends

 

I have a female and a male who wait at the front door each morning and I have to go and unlock the door and reach up into the dustbin cupboard for their pot of muesli, suet and raisins. They are literally 6" from my hand as I place a pile under the camellia by the door. It grows low enough to deter the wood pigeons from getting under there . I'll take a piccie when there is enough daylight,
Jenny

 

Blackbirds are very cheeky. When I was digging some long trenches over the lawn for power cables , as soon as I stopped for a well earned brew the Blackbirds where there for the pickings . But one would even follow 3 feet behind me while I was digging thus getting the best pick !

 

When i was on the farms working I use to do some milling every week .first I would grind the corn for chicken feed and mix it with cod liver oil,(about 1/2 ton) then I would have to roll the oats for the cattle feed and you could time a blackbird as to how fast he came ,we had a tin bin about 5ft square and he would sit an the tin and pick the corn that would bounce up of the floor.As long as I moved slowly he never moved, he was sat at the side of me while I finished then of he would go till the next week.

 

How wonderful! Your post has reminded me of when I used to have a blackbird who would come to call for a few tasty sultanas.

Eventually, we reached this stage (mind you, that was two houses and 11 years ago) ....



... and it definitely wasn't an easy trick to feed him in one hand and take the photo with the other!

Hope you manage to achieve something similar because it really is quite an experience to reach that point where a wild bird will eat from your hand.

 

Reminds me of my little Robin who came to see me when I was fishing this last 2 years,not as close as your blackbird but he would come and help himself to my maggot's that where in my bait tray about 6ins from me,odd times he would pop down onto the rod end and just sit and look at me,very cheeky.The only problem with him he never sat long enough for me to catch him on camera still might catch him next year if he pops round

 

Steady there! (We're not discussing your love life! )

 

Yes that is one big problem,but found out that if you get a good big bite the whip of the rod flying round moves them of.I call him names at times but still can't wait for him to pop round,he's only aloud to get so many maggots them I have to put a cloth over to stop him.