Blackbird

Today's the day ...................... for dark thoughts

We were having a discussion the other day about birds that are black.

Most people think that the likes of crows, rooks, ravens and jackdaws are all a bit sinister and scary.  You certainly wouldn't want them all that close to you - and there's even something evil and malevolent about them. 

But curiously, somehow none of that applies to the garden blackbird?  Maybe it's because it's not quite so big - or maybe it's such a common bird that we have just got used to it. 

Or could it just be that clever addition of the orange beak .....................?  

PS  This, it seems, is a day of dark thoughts.  Can it really be that blipfoto will be no more?  Like everyone else, I have much to be grateful for in the daily routine that it has brought to my life.  I have got to know some wonderful people along the way who have enriched my life in ways I could never have imagined.

I have signed up with 365Project as todaystheday.  At the moment, I have no enthusiasm - but perhaps that will come in due course . . .