The Neighbours: Mr + Mrs Blackbird
This is Dad. You've met him before, and indeed, he's out in the "heat" (25 deg C - we're having our summer this weekend) singing away even now.
This is Mum. Well, I'm not altogether sure she's really a mum, but a couple of evenings ago she was yelling and cussing and swearing, and I get the impression they have a nest just over the back fence, so...
There was something in next door's garden she wasn't happy about (perhaps the world's stupidest cat), and she was really holding forth (loud metallic tink tink tink calls):
Yesterday, though, she was very chilled out, and after a nice meal of worm, she had a lie down under one of my little maple trees for half an hour or so. She was only about twelve feet away, and very relaxed about my being there.
