Mother thrush and her wee babies – Tim Durrant

Sometime between Christmas and New Year a tree blew down in our front garden exposing a mother thrush incubating her eggs. I decided to take some careful zoom photos of her over several days until the eggs hatched. Here are the results. I will take some more as they get a bit older.

Nesting on her eggs

Mother thrush keeps her chicks warm by fluffing up her feathers

Mother thrush is away for a worm or two

Bring us food please

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