Fledged

I spotted this very young male blackbird in the garden.  It was behaving really strangely fluttering and gasping, and I thought there was something wrong with it.  But as I drew closer he stood up and then flew away just fine.

I think he had just been trying to cool off - it was so hot.  So I ran the hose into a flat dish and as soon as I was back inside the house there half a dozen blackbirds drinking at it.