Glossy blackbird plucks juicy earthworms from the green grass
Filmed in Berkshire, England
Video by Morten_Art
January 16 2016
Transtrom says:
If you were to believe various myths and folktales, you’d find this solitary, territorial bird to be imbued with evil and supernatural powers. Welsh poet R. S. Thomas observed that there was “a suggestion of dark Places” about the blackbird that was at odds with its beautiful song.
In the story of the life of Saint Benedict, the Devil was said to have come to tempt the saint in the form of a blackbird.
The English nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence” involves blackbirds “baked in a pie”, which reanimate and sing when the pie is opened. One then flies out and pecks off the nose of a maid. Charming!