Nice photos Mike. Out of interest what fruit is it eating? The Dunnocks in my garden spend most of the time rootling in the leaf litter and I can't remember seeing one eating fruit.
Hi - that is a very good question and I wondered that myself ! It is the first time I've seen one eating fruit also. It could be a sloe as there are plenty round here (good for making sloe gin) but otherwise I'm not sure. There are some garden shrubs round here that have a purple fruit but I can't remember what they are. Next time I'm walking round I'll try to spot what it may be.
Well no, actually. I think there's some cachet attached to having 3 sparky dunnocks in one's shrubbery so very early in the season. They repeated the performance again today. One turns away to poker the fire .......