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SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,867	Our Garden Birds May 17, 2012 11:58:34 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on May 17, 2012 11:58:34 GMT That's good news Derek, luckily there's been no frost so you can leave the door ajar for them.

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,438	Our Garden Birds May 17, 2012 21:34:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on May 17, 2012 21:34:41 GMT The other egg has hatched today,Sue

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,438	Our Garden Birds May 18, 2012 21:12:51 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on May 18, 2012 21:12:51 GMT My blackbird collecting food for its chicks

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,438	Our Garden Birds May 18, 2012 21:14:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on May 18, 2012 21:14:53 GMT There are 5 great tits eggs in the nest box today

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Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 14:11:35 GMT

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That's good, you should get one of those nest box cameras (bit expensive though!) set up Derek so you can watch them next time!
We have baby blackbirds in the front garden just leaving the nest & lots of baby starlings hanging around in the back garden along with bluetits & goldfinches.

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,938	Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 16:38:36 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on May 19, 2012 16:38:36 GMT What do goldfinches eat when there is no niger seed up for them?

steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,709	Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 17:13:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on May 19, 2012 17:13:54 GMT They do love Teasel
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lesley Top Member Posts: 9,350	Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 18:18:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lesley on May 19, 2012 18:18:47 GMT Our Sparrows have had there babies, there backwards and forwards feeding I'll try and get another photo tomorrow.
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Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 19:19:40 GMT

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Post by peony on May 19, 2012 19:19:40 GMT

I've got a blackbird and a robin nesting in the pyracantha on the back of the house, and I spotted a wren going in and out of the ivy on the fence. Wrens nested in the same place last year so perhaps they have just re-furbished the old nest.

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Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,938	Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 19:33:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on May 19, 2012 19:33:02 GMT May 19, 2012 17:13:54 GMT steve said: They do love Teasel There is no Teasel here. What else do goldfinches eat?

cowslip Guest	Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 20:39:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by cowslip on May 19, 2012 20:39:47 GMT May 19, 2012 19:33:02 GMT Cherry said: May 19, 2012 17:13:54 GMT steve said: They do love Teasel There is no Teasel here. What else do goldfinches eat? In my garden they love the sunflower hearts even though I also have teasels!

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Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 21:58:51 GMT

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Post by derekbrooks on May 19, 2012 21:58:51 GMT

I had a big disappointment this evening. I found my blackbird chicks all dead.There were a lot of adult blackbird feathers on top and round the nest so it looks as though something ,probably a cat, has attacked the bird on the nest but why didn,t it take the chicks.They were untouched-just dead because they hadn't been fed.They were O.K.yesterday which was when I took the picture of the mother with food in its beak for the chicks.
Hope I have better luck with my great tits.

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Our Garden Birds May 19, 2012 22:05:36 GMT

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May 19, 2012 20:39:47 GMT @cowslip said:

May 19, 2012 19:33:02 GMT Cherry said:

There is no Teasel here. What else do goldfinches eat?

In my garden they love the sunflower hearts even though I also have teasels!

I'm told they also eat dandelion seeds!

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Our Garden Birds May 20, 2012 5:06:12 GMT

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Post by Cherry on May 20, 2012 5:06:12 GMT

Thanks Steve. The birds go off their food themselves at this time of the year, but I was worried about the goldfinches because they were still around, and there is no niger for them. There are thousands of dandelions and I saw small birds of another sort eating dandelions when I was in Scotland.

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Our Garden Birds May 20, 2012 5:08:24 GMT

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May 19, 2012 21:58:51 GMT derekbrooks said:

I had a big disappointment this evening. I found my blackbird chicks all dead.There were a lot of adult blackbird feathers on top and round the nest so it looks as though something ,probably a cat, has attacked the bird on the nest but why didn,t it take the chicks.They were untouched-just dead because they hadn't been fed.They were O.K.yesterday which was when I took the picture of the mother with food in its beak for the chicks.
Hope I have better luck with my great tits.

Derek that is very sad.