Quite recently, in the past ten years or so, with the increasing number of Bird feeders in people's gardens birds such as Robins, Dunnocks, Wrens, Blackbirds and even Pigeons, which originally were termed 'Ground feeding' Birds (due to their preference to feed from tables and the ground as their habits and body were suited best for this) have now started to become Feeder birds and learnt the abilities to either sit on bird feeders like regular feeder birds (such as Finches, Sparrows, etc), hover next to the feeder briefly and snatch a bit of food in flight or simply sit on branches adjacent to the feeders and peck from them.
The Robins and Dunnocks in my garden have taken to actually learning to sitting on feeders like regular feeder birds. The blackbirds have however learnt the, sitting on the branch next to the feeder, approach.
The below pictures show a Female, a Male and lastly an Immature Male Blackbird feeding from a fat-cake feeder in my garden. This has only just started to occur this year. Definitely evolution of Blackbirds in my garden.
Pictures are poor quality due to being taken through a dirty kitchen window. Must get round to sorting that out......
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