This morning I spied a young blackbird which had an injured back and seemed unable to fly. I didn’t have time to do anything about the bird and wondered if it would become cat fodder!

This evening the bird was hopping around the vegetable patches that we were weeding (the cats were hanging out with us and I didn’t fancy a bloodbath amongst the parsnips!). We chased the bird into one of the chicken houses and I picked it up.

We then took the bird into the empty quail barn and put it in a cage with some straw, bird food and water.

Some googling revealed that blackbirds love fruit especially plums and apples. We put some in the cage. We will leave it there for a few days and hope that its wing and back feathers recover.