Today there have been two visitors to the garden.....one of them, the song thrush, is one of our greatest singers and the other, the hedge sparrow is a bird of curious habits and a delightful song reminiscent of the white throat warbler. The female dunnock mates with as many males as possible but only allows one to father her chicks....by ingenious means.....however, all the local males think the chicks are theirs and help in feeding them......the dunnock is also regularly parisitised by the common cuckoo and somehow fails to recognize that the giant chick in its nest is not its own....
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