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Courtship

 

Not until the third day did the female pied flycatcher abandon her flirty  fleeing. The couple moved a little nearer each other, finding more and more time to get better acquainted.

And life became even more hectic. At least for the male bird, who didn’t exactly seem to be a master of seduction. After fluffing himself up, and waving his wings, he had only one trump card left – slowly raising and lowering his tail. But his lady love seemed to like it – or why else would she slip off into the apple tree branches ever so often to arrange her plumage.

In the world of birds  great interest is shown in what other families do. And so to the doings of our eager male bird was also added the duty to drive away curious onlookers. For some reason he at once chased the robin away from the garden, pursuing it for quite a while. For the greenfinch, chaffinch, house sparrow and blue tit it sufficed to drive them away from the nest tree.