General Chat

Hi Rose
We have a few pidgeons about too. couple the last few days have been looking all loved up.... rubbing necks lol

Well when I came back on Sun ,after being away for a week,I can see at least two eggs in the nest,I can see from upstairs. The shrub is dead so still very bare and exposed ;((
Theres what looked like 'big sister' sitting on the fence a lot on look out.
It doesnt look like an adult as it's not got a long tail. Do blackbird families stick together?

Marion

Just noticed a few deleted posts,somebody spring cleaning lol

Birds do nest in the strangest places.
I have just read in our local paper this evening that a bluetit has set up home outside the snnoker club in a cigarette bin.
The owners have had to put signs on and around it to prevent anyone using it by mistake while they are nesting there.

Teresa

Aww, poor wee things.

A few years ago there were a few nests in a wall beside a road. It was sad to see tiny little birds who must have flown right into cars :(((

Nature can be very sad.
3 fridays ago we found a tiny baby rabbit in our garden and the following day OH found it dead.
A friend said that they sometimes die of fright.

Teresa

I found a dead little sparrow that must have flown into our lounge window today.Yesterday when `i took the dog out there was a baby something that must have fallen out of its nest.I think it was a pidgeon.Our garden is busy busy with all sorts of birds.Building nests ,courting ,you name it they are doing it lol
Teresa your little rabbit didn't have myxamatosis (sp) did it ?I have seen a few around here with that awful disease.

Morning all.
Oh has just been out to cut grass and she is till in the nest right beside the grass. I thought she might of flown away at the noise.
Fingers crossed they survive.I'm getting to be a right bird watcher lol.

The rabbit was maybe chased about by a cat...poor wee thing.

Marion

Well looks like Dad is taking his turn at egg sitting.
i'm going to be sick if they dont survive. I shouldnt have been watching their progress lol.

Well, it's been great to watch them. Today two of them have hopped out the nest.Was nice to see. fingers crossed the cats dont get them. two left.
This is the first time I have ever watched them.

I put a new nestbox up outside my kitchen window last year with a removable section in the centre at the front. It has a hole in for bluetits etc. if left in or can be left out for robins. I decided to leave it out, as we have other boxes around for bluetits. A month ago it was still unoccupied, so I decided to put the centre section back in to try and attract bluetits. Guess what? A robin is building its nest in there now! I sit at my kitchen table watching it - one of the benefits of retirement!

Hi Wend.

It's lovely to watch them. They build the nest beside a nest box I had up for blue tits. It's been used by the baby blackbirds to hop back and forward to their nest about 1 ft away. Theres only one in the nest now, it's hopping about on branches and back in to the nest. The others have gone over the other side of the 6ft panel fence,so I cant see them.

Carol as this happened, did you hear the Benny Hill/theme tune playing lol.

What were they up to?

Well we had a blackbird nest built on top of a flower pot. It laid 5 eggs and te male sat on them. We went away for the weekend Fri to Mon, when we returned on Monday we found all 5 eggs had hatched but all babies dead.
Could not find any signs of injury parents disappeared. So a mystery.

The flower pots were on a stand (4 to the stand) it was on the second one down.

Hi Pat.

Aww thats a shame. Maybe the got disturbed and the parents flew off.
As far as I know they can return to an old nest. The one I have is on a dead Jasmin so I will have to take it out. Its really exposed as it is and I dont think I could work round it.

I'm just a bit miffed they flew over in to my neigbours garden, so I cant see them now :(( I know they are there as the parents are flying around with food for them.

Hi Marion

Well at least you managed to see yours. Do they return the next year to nest in the garden of their birth?

OH was so looking forward to seeing the babies he thinks maybe a cat or magpie frightened the parents away, who knows. Anyway like you we shall have to put the nest elsewhere it's too exposed. Stupid birds why don't they build in a safer place.

Hi Pat and Babara.

I think they are known to use the same nest again. They do stay around the same area if there is food bushes/trees etc.

Last year, there was a family about. One of them seem to have trouble with a leg or wing not sure which. It could have been it's leg and it used its wing to balance. Anyway I felt sorry for this one so I gave it worms lol. It hopped about a couple of days then started to fly.

The parents we had nesting werent to scared came up to me while gardening and didnt move from the nest even when I was feet away.

I think it may be the same family.

n

Thanks Marion, I'm going to bookmark this to read :)