This slightly scruffy blackbird bonked against my window a moment before I took this photo…

It’s just a tiny flying dinosaur with feathers!

I think the Blackbirds have realized that my balcony is a very safe place to build a nest!

They have literally taken over the balcony – they really built their nest in a secluded spot! Unfortunately I can’t take photos of it easily, but from time to time they buzz around the balcony looking slightly surprised that there’s a human living there too.

The Blackbirds are getting more and more bold these days!

This is a bit blurry because this Blackbird was sitting in the Maple, but it shows very nicely how much nesting material they were lugging around a couple of days ago!

The blackbird couple has pretty much taken over the balcony!

The young Blackbird turns out to be an adult one that is looking for nesting material – they were all over my balcony today collecting twigs and leaves! I’m not sure where they set up digs, but it must be somwhere around the balconies.

A young blackbird was checking out my balcony today!

For a couple of weeks even during the cold snaps, there was a pigeon sitting in the hallway stone window bay – I almost thought it was injured, but it turned out it was breeding – and here’s the result!