Spoils

......... I was in the garden enjoying the sunshine when I heard a blackbird scratching the leaves on the floor in some bushes, I watched for a while as she found a few bugs then she moved into a small clearing and was ambushed out of nowhere by another female blackbird - feathers flew in the scuffle and one bird flew off while the other emerged with the spoils in her beak ........... I don’t know which bird this is but I know she didn’t go hungry ;-)
I’ve never seen a blackbird ambush another for food before and this all happened not 10 feet in front of me - amazing ;-))