What Are The Breeding Habits Of Common Blackbirds?

Blackbirds (Turdus merula) are the most common breeding birds in British gardens. They are a type of thrush, the males being black with bright yellow beaks while the females are a drab dull, often slightly spotty dark brown. Blackbirds occur all over the UK, in nearly all habitats.

Blackbirds start nesting from March and will go right through September if conditions are good. They make their nests out of twigs, mud and moss in densely foliated shrubs or trees. The male and female build the nest together, but the female does nearly all the incubating. After the chicks hatch the pair will continue to feed the chicks for at least a few days. However, most often at this point, the pair proceed to build a new nest. The female does most of the building and then incubating of the new clutch, while the male feeds the current offspring.

There is a high predation level of chicks, who tend to leave the nest before they can fly. Some estimates are that up to 90% of blackbird nesting efforts produce no adult offspring. However, in a good year, the pair might produce up to 3 full clutches of surviving young.

All the eggs have gone from the nest /no sign of predators or damaged nest or traces of any kind.
Also not possible for anyone to have taken them.

I touched the nest by mistake while the female blackbird was building her nest , she flew away and hasn't come back , do you think she'll return ?

My black birds have made there nest but we don't see them anymore until early evening when they look for food one is black and one brown why is this .

I observed a male and female blackbird pair on a low concrete wall recently. Both were facing each other with beaks open, as if they were to be fed by the other. The female made hopping advances towards the male, and the male hopped back away from the female a bit in return. The male then flew behind the female, mated, and returned to his position facing the female wth beak open. The female resumed hopping towards the male, and the male hopped backwards until he fell off the wall, They both flew off afterwards. How's that for blackbird behavior.

My female appears to be feeding her offspring alone . The male is nowhere to be seen ans-d is not singing. Is this usual?

It should be around spring and summer when you see these birds breed in the open. They feed on seeds and grains. They are a hardworking bunch of birds, they do their nest together and they live together, how nice.