Blue Tit chicks

[fatboy b]

The O/H was on the phone to her mate last night while looking out the back window. A couple of blue tits were hovering around the garden fence where the bird-box used to be. fk! Where's the bird-box gone? I dashed out, and found it on the floor, and it had something in it.

On opening there were 5 chicks in a heap all tangled in the nest. The screw the box was on had fallen out of the fence. The parents were watching, and tweating from a nearby tree. I managed to refit the box on to a new screw. Then removed all the chicks to reorganise the nest. They were all very healthy, and looked to be only a few days off fledging as their wings were in fine fettle.

Nest reorganised, I held the dish they were in to the open door of the nest, and in they all jumped. Parents returned shortly afterwards. A happy ending

[Don]

fatboy b said:

A happy ending

Yay!

Songbirds are lovely wee things, aren't they? It's great this time of year having them in the garden.

[Kays vRS]

That could've been a tragedy! Glad it worked out well

[ShadownINja]

\o/

If my house fell 100 metres (it's proportional!), I'd st myself.

[Pferdestarke]

Great news. Well done

[fatboy b]

ShadownINja said:

\o/

If my house fell 100 metres (it's proportional!), I'd st myself.

Bloody right ! I was amazed they were all alright.

[Simpo Two]

And I thought this was a thread about thinly-clad girls in winter.

[ShadownINja]

I might get a bird box. It's a bit annoying when the only close view of a nesting family is through the smallest window in the house... although it's made having a piss more interesting.

[anonymous-user]

Nice one, i found a chick on the floor once, i searched the hedge & could only find one nest which seemed old. I popped the fella in but to this day do not know if it survived. I like to think it did

[anonymous-user]

Simpo Two said:

And I thought this was a thread about thinly-clad girls in winter.

Disappointed?

[Sheets Tabuer]

Blue tits usually breed by may so if you have them now it might be an extremely rare second brood.

Ours left by the end of may, it was fantastic having the little fellas around

[Podie]

Cool, I like a happy ending.

Had a pigeon nest in one of our trees. Mum got mauled by a local cat, and the baby left the nest a bit too early. Took him to a rescue centre, but he died 4 days later

Still, I've actually seen a baby pigeon!!!

[Flintstone]

Ahhhh, bless.

Bloody wood pigeons have decided to nest in the wisteria which I was about to prune back. Messy bds have dropped more twigs around the front door than they've managed to get close enough to each other to call a 'nest'.

Messy, slow, stupid birds are wood pigeons.

[RonJohnson]

Flintstone said:

Ahhhh, bless.

Bloody wood pigeons have decided to nest in the wisteria which I was about to prune back. Messy bds have dropped more twigs around the front door than they've managed to get close enough to each other to call a 'nest'.

Messy, slow, stupid birds are wood pigeons.

They taste nice though.

[Broomsticklady]

Bit late for this year but someone sent me a link to this website which seems to be in use most of the time. Earlier in the year it was inside a nesting box which a pair of blue tits were using and you could watch the whole process from eggs (!) through hatching and fledging - it was quite adddictive watching the chicks vying for space in the nest and their first efforts to get out of the nesting hole onto the nesting material - and then one day they just went!!

Maybe keep a note of the site for next year - I certainly am

http://www.jubilee.hackney.sch.uk/news/birdcam.asp