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But its not against the law for cats to kill birds, their young or destroy any nests they can reach. Nor is it against the law for cat owners to allow their animals to do this.

But its not against the law for cats to kill birds, their young or destroy any nests they can reach. Nor is it against the law for cat owners to allow their animals to do this.

"All wild birds in the UK, their nests and eggs are protected by law; damaging, destroying or disturbing the nests, birds or eggs is an offence."

Thats not strictly true.
Perhaps one should point this law out to the Aristocracy ... "Game season" springs to mind..
One law for the rich and one for the poor, it seems. but then the rich make the laws ;-)

I have such a picture in my mind Maggie lol


Joan, sorry you have been so poorly, hope you feel lots better now and will be able to get those windows sorted out (summer sale prices?) and all installed before the winter comes again.

Looks as if we are in for a nice summer or at least one month of it, how's your forecast?

O.h. bought covers for the bench and the plastic chairs, saves so much scrubbing. The birds sit in the clematis at the side of the house next the drive and make such a mess of the passenger side of the car, cos o.h. never thinks of parking further out as I do lol

Take care and have fun spending your winnings

Lizx

aww Kitty I would have loved to have seen that :-)xx

:-D Sharron - it all adds to the 'mad woman with cats' reputation I have

That must be worth watching.

It's also an offence to harm or move sloworms, they are a protected species.
I used to have them in the back garden - now they're in the front too.

That's why my garden is 'slightly' overgrown - honest :-D

I usually mow the grass when it's dull, as they tend to bask when it's hot. Even then, before I mow, I jump around to scare them off the grass.

A few summers ago we were sitting in my sister's conservatory when something caught her eye.

We were amazed to see a wren flitting in and out of a hanging basket.

In a few weeks 3 fledglings appeared, when they were all gone we looked at the tiny nest....I suppose the soft moss lining had attracted mother wren.

xx

Hi Joan, nice to see you again, you haven't been posting for a while? Have you been spending your winnings lol?

Hope you are all ok. It sound lovely where you live with so much wildlife as well as the Farmer nearby!

I love the birds nesting here and would never disturb a nest if I could help it, made sure the lads (new neighbours needing to get access to the fence posts) clearing part of my garden at my house were careful and they said they would be.

Lizx

Yes, that is why you see hedges wrapped in fine net early in the year when builders start building new houses where there are hedges. The birds can't nest in the hedges then meaning the builder can uproot them or dig bits out for pipe laying when he wants to without the delay there would be if birds were nesting.

There was a nest with two squabs in it when our bay tree was cut down.

They went straight to the wildlife hospital down the road with a fiver.

I knew that Carol :-D

My neighbour wouldn't Carol, they can't see into my garden, nobody can, but I wouldn't damage or destroy a nest anyway :-D

I didn't know it was a law - when painters and decorators were removing ivy from an adjoining extension wall last year I pointed out that the Robins had a nest and they left the ivy in situ, I thought at the time that is was very good of them :-)

They obviously did know the law :-)

Your neighbour will know.

Many of us enjoy feeding & watching wild birds in our gardens, the numbers of some are dropping, possibly because of the grubbing of hedges to accommodate larger farm machinery.

In some cases parents will desert their eggs or young if they are disturbed, the cutting of the hedge round the nest will also allow magpies etc. to spot the nest.

i have seen that somewhere too

We used to have problems with sparrows somehow getting into our loft space. Would hear em tweeting . OH went up there one time to get something down and was divebombed by a sparrow who thought he was after her chicks I suppose.

We waited till the babies had grown and the nest was no longer used and the ncleaned up all the poop took the nest out and tried to find where in the eaves they had come in . Found the place where they had moved the insulation away right over the gutter board and above the guttering and cleaned it all up and secured it , job done.

Hate it when the cat used to catch birds and mice and bring em back to torment and then leave us to clean up the mess or try to locate to set em free .

Our black cat would catch baby rabbits and bring em home if you tried to take it off him he would scoop it up and run off only to return hours later on his own.

Who'd know if you damaged, or destroyed it though?

Did you know:

All wild birds in the UK, their nests and eggs are protected by law; damaging, destroying or disturbing the nests, birds or eggs is an offence.
When undertaking work on garden hedges you should check that there are no birds nesting, as it is an offence under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.