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Post by SueA on May 7, 2015 17:57:13 GMT
Oh dear SueA I hope the wee birds got away from the cat. So do I KC , it looked like it might have been a blackbird's nest, hopefully they were big enough to survive. |
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Post by SueA on May 7, 2015 18:02:02 GMT
We've had blackbirds nesting in our garden & next door but haven't seen any sign of young peony, no bluetits in any of our boxes either. The robin did nest in our garden & the babies fledged to the brambles over the fence but I haven't seen the parent flying backwards & forwards feeding them for the last couple of days so I hope they didn't die in the heavy rain & gales. |
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Post by peony on May 7, 2015 18:20:38 GMT
We've had blackbirds nesting in our garden & next door but haven't seen any sign of young peony, no bluetits in any of our boxes either. The robin did nest in our garden & the babies fledged to the brambles over the fence but I haven't seen the parent flying backwards & forwards feeding them for the last couple of days so I hope they didn't die in the heavy rain & gales. I hope the young are OK @sue, perhaps they have moved to another garden and the parents are feeding them there. |
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Post by steve on May 11, 2015 17:34:28 GMT
If you look carefully in the round gap right hand side of wall planter you can just make out the beaks of 2 of the baby robins   |
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Post by steve on May 11, 2015 17:53:25 GMT
This one is a bit better, I don't want to get too close really  |
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Post by steve on May 11, 2015 18:04:25 GMT
This is where it is located, surprisingly exposed for a robin! luckily it doesn't get sun till late afternoon  |
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Post by peony on May 11, 2015 18:07:47 GMT
Great pictures Steve Love the one with their little beaks wide open, they must have thought you were 'Mum' with the food  |
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Post by steve on May 11, 2015 18:12:53 GMT
Thanks Peony, you just have to make a little noise before pressing shutter obviously I was nowhere near as close as it looks but close enough for them to think is that supper |
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Post by Rosie on May 11, 2015 18:34:27 GMT
What brilliant pictures steve Both Graham and I feel terribly guiilty, we were working in the garden and we decided he would work on the posts and I would cut back a really manky dwarf conifer that is all dead in the middle, so i set to it with loppers and secatuers. I was about 80% and cut a branch and uncovered a nest with 3 or 4 babies in...  I think they are Dunnocks, we very very carefully put some branches back over the nest and retreated. We have been watching very closely and we are seeing the parents going in and out with beak fulls of bugs so the babies seem fine. We are sooo relieved that it all seems ok and will be watching to see them fledge. But they were just the cutest little bundles of fluff we've ever seen |
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Post by Cherry on May 11, 2015 19:41:36 GMT
Brilliant pictures steve. I can see you are quite attached to that pelargonium. I know that is the one which just keeps on. I am glad your birds are alright Rosie. You would never forgive yourself if you damaged the nest and lost the birds. |
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Post by SueA on May 11, 2015 20:09:00 GMT
Lovely pics. steve , you should have thrown a few caterpillars into their mouths!  |
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Post by grindle on May 12, 2015 6:50:43 GMT
great pictures steve I have just rescued a baby robin from a cat  I put it in a hanging basket on next door's wall, right where the nest it but I don't hold out much hope for it poor thing  |
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Post by Cherry on May 12, 2015 8:20:35 GMT
That is very upsetting grindle. None of my cats have ever been interested in birds. There are too many rabbits and field mice here to interest them. Lazy Lily could not be bothered actually. |
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Post by SueA on May 12, 2015 19:24:32 GMT
It is a shame grindle but it may be alright. There are a couple of new little kittens in our area who seem to have their eyes on the baby birds , I haven't seen them catch anything though. I think a lot of the birds have lost nests & young in the bad weather last week, they all seem to be building new nests & starting again, the only youngster I've seen is one robin which looks like it was old enough to have been taking care of itself already. The blackbirds have been scooping up the last of the mud from the 'ponds' at the end of the garden to build a new nest in the ivy 'tree' which is actually a huge construction of ivy grown around an old washing line post, broken bird table & prop- looks like a tree about 4 foot across at the 'trunk'! steve , does your postie have instructions to tiptoe? |
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Post by steve on May 12, 2015 19:36:27 GMT
It is a shame grindle but it may be alright. There are a couple of new little kittens in our area who seem to have their eyes on the baby birds , I haven't seen them catch anything though. I think a lot of the birds have lost nests & young in the bad weather last week, they all seem to be building new nests & starting again, the only youngster I've seen is one robin which looks like it was old enough to have been taking care of itself already. The blackbirds have been scooping up the last of the mud from the 'ponds' at the end of the garden to build a new nest in the ivy 'tree' which is actually a huge construction of ivy grown around an old washing line post, broken bird table & prop- looks like a tree about 4 foot across at the 'trunk'! steve , does your postie have instructions to tiptoe? I've not seen her to tell her yet SueA but knowing how robins are around their nests she will be getting divebombed very soon |
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I think they are Dunnocks, we very very carefully put some branches back over the nest and retreated. We have been watching very closely and we are seeing the parents going in and out with beak fulls of bugs so the babies seem fine. We are sooo relieved that it all seems ok and will be watching to see them fledge. But they were just the cutest little bundles of fluff we've ever seen 
I put it in a hanging basket on next door's wall, right where the nest it but I don't hold out much hope for it poor thing 
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