A New Garden Friend, Mr Blackbird

This is my first 3Speak video, please be gentle with me !

There's no sound on this clip, I was lurking in my office filming through the window and trying to be quiet to avoid disturbing him. He spent a good 10 minutes turning over every leaf on the frozen lawn looking for bugs to eat.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to catch a clip of the blackbirds singing at night, they sound so beautiful !

Over the last year or so, we've seen a significant increase in bird life coming into the garden. I think a lot of it is because I had a terrible aphid problem, mainly on the sage and roses. I dug the sage up (it was getting woody), and stopped spraying the roses with bug killer. It sounds counter-intuitive, but the bug spray idn't seem to be working, and I didn't want to harm the bees. What actually happened is that the local tribe of sparrows started coming in andeating up all the aphids, followed soon after by great tits and robins. It makes the garden a far nicer place !