Not a sight I’ve ever seen before: two female blackbirds fighting on one of the patches of lawn in West Park. One evidently thought the other was encroaching on her territory.
The fight was intense, but brief. These pictures cover a four second span, from shortly after the fight kicked off to the point where the intruder flew off. She headed off to another, nearby patch of lawn. As she landed, there was further menace. A rat emerged from the fringing shrubbery and challenged her. A further retreat, then rat and blackbird both disappeared into the shrubbery, at some yards separation.