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We've been keeping an eye on a nest, which is against a fence with a trellis and quite low down, it a blackbirds nest build inside a Ceanothus plant.
We noticed there were two eggs, and then a couple of days ago we saw two babies :wub: Today one of the babies left the nest and was sitting on or little fence that surrounds our decking, then we saw mummy feeding, it's just so sweet. This afternoon when I got home from work it looks like the other baby has left the nest for a wander around the garden :)
I'm just going to put photo's on the gallery. I feel so proud of them, how stupid is that :lol: they are gorgeous.
Bonkers Mad!!!
07-05-09, 03:03 PM
awwww :wub:
i have a baby starling under my eaves. i havent seen it yet but it's ready for it'sfirst flight :yes:. the mum and dad have spent the last few days on next doors guttering, worms in beaks, screeching at the baby to move it's backside :lol:. from previous years experience it wont bother until the next bank holiday. if i know that then why doesnt its parents :unsure: :lol:
Aaawww, that's lovely,Omega :D
I know what you mean about being proud :D:rolleyes: I was proud of my 5 baby robins last year too until a big bad magpie came and stole them :cry:
Looking forward to the piccies :D
Lovely pics hun:thumbs:, just had a quick look. As usual we have nothing :( except Egbert the garden toad, who I must say has grown somewhat during the winter. :o
awwww :wub:
i have a baby starling under my eaves. i havent seen it yet but it's ready for it'sfirst flight :yes:. the mum and dad have spent the last few days on next doors guttering, worms in beaks, screeching at the baby to move it's backside :lol:. from previous years experience it wont bother until the next bank holiday. if i know that then why doesnt its parents :unsure: :lol:
It's always the parents who are last to know what their kids get up to :lol:
I left Mr O babysitting whilst I was at work, he was mowing the lawn and tidying garden etc and the babies were just looking round the garden as though they trust us, although mum and dad were keeping an eye on them too ;) At least we do not have cats that visit our garden anymore so fingers x'd they are safe.
The photos are lovely,Omega :yes:
Lovely pics omega they are so cute :D
I am so jealous O. We had a nest last year and it was so well made - a true work of art but the adults abandoned the nest and that was that :( .
We also have starlings BM - loads of the blighters! They have turfed out our sparrows at the front and have a nest at the back too :rolleyes: . Ah well, at least they'll help keep the lawn free of pests when they hatch!
islandman
08-05-09, 05:36 AM
You might like to view this. Someone has a webcam right up close to a blackbirds nest in their garden and when the bird flies off, there are five eggs. I must say that early some mornings it dosen't work.
http://92.9.227.189:8083/
no, this link isn't working, I'll try again soon.
This is working now:-
http://92.9.227.189:8083/
Bonkers Mad!!!
08-05-09, 05:51 AM
thanks for that islandman, it's working now :thumbs:
mazza, the starlings are so noisy, they drive me mad :yes:. they do sometimes miss a year and then i wonder where they are but then when they come back i moan about them :lol:. this year they are being closely watched by a family of magpies who i'm sure are just waiting for a chance to pounce on the baby.
Great webcam Islandman :D
BM watch those rotten magpies, they broke my heart last year as they took all 5 baby robins :crybaby:
Bonkers Mad!!!
08-05-09, 09:49 AM
i am SP :yes:. every time i hear them out there i open the bedroom window and they fly away.
Annabel
08-05-09, 09:53 AM
I blinking hate magpies they are so aggressive. last year there was a nest of them in the tree in front of the house, but not this year.
one of my cats had a baby magpie last year, it was massive and v ugly. horrid things.
Bonkers Mad!!!
08-05-09, 10:00 AM
one of mine got a magpie baby one year :yes:. the parents just dive bombed him while i wastrying to make him let go. they werent scared of me at all and didnt care that i was trying to save it and i got some nasty jabs with their beaks. the baby got away and my poor cat didnt know what had hit him :lol:
Annabel
08-05-09, 10:25 AM
I patted my cats on the head and said well done, there are too many magpies and they are getting to be a nuisance.
io really am not a fan of large birds, i have aproblem with manky pigeons as well and was quite delighted when Ken livingstone decided to banish the nasty things from trafalgar square!
Blimey BM!!! :bigeyes: .
I don't like magpies either although they are very striking to look at. They just seem to be proliferating.
They will take over the world!
The update of the two baby blackbirds .... they fled the nest and decided to jump over the fence into an overgrown patch of no mans land; we watched mummy and daddy keep hopping over the fence to feed them :)
Yesterday a baby appeared and sat on our fence between trellis, mum was feeding and it seems it has come back to our garden :thumbs:
There is one strange thing, I feed the hedgehogs with "hedgehog food" in the evening as we believe they might have woken up ;) Anyway yesterday we couldn't believe our eyes, I put the food out at 6pm and within a few minutes mummy blackbird landed on our grass and hopped to the hedgehog food, where she ate some of it and then fed baby :o
Tonight Mr O was sitting in the garden when mummy B landed on the grass and made a beeline for the hedgehog food, unfortunately for her I hadn't filled the feeder up yet, and he said mummy B looked quite perplexed searching for the feeder then flew off :lol: So I put out the HH food and again within minutes she was back stocking up on it, not once but quite a few times :lol:
It seems the only bird to eat it, so must think it is her own supply of special food :lol: Nice to see though .....
I don't like Magpies either where we used to live they used to steal the eggs of a couple of ring necked doves every year which is sad :(
Annabel
11-05-09, 10:19 PM
I had some ring necked doves in my garden that used to eat my cats' dried food if I left their bowl outside:rolleyes: both cats would just sit and watch them do it, as well!^_^
I am very sad :(
we had a nest next to the back door, that mum and dad both built, then dad disappeared :( mum sat and sat and sat, and then gave up, leaving one egg, there were 3 eggs, I dont know what happened to them :cry:
never mind, its nature I guess, but we were sad, we do have other nests in the side garedn so fingers crossed for those ones (we seem very late here)
:( oh dear Beth how sad
I found a dead baby that must have either been thrown out or fallen out from somewhere (we don't know where the nest was) on our decking :cry: It wasn't very old and was probably dead by the time it hit the decking. I wrapped it up and placed it in the bin :(
:) On a happier not my blackbird babies are back in the garden, getting bigger ever day! They hop about all around the edge under cover of plants & drink from our large fountain. It's a lovely site to see :)
Bonkers Mad!!!
22-05-09, 06:48 PM
my baby starling didnt make it. it flew the nest this morning and i later found Sam eating it :(. i was hoping it wasnt our baby but the parents havent been around all evening so i'm pretty sure it was. caught me off guard because they usually take their first flight on bank holiday monday and i usually keep the cats in all day to give the baby a chance to find it's wings. that has worked for a few years but i wasnt it expecting it to try its luck today.
Oh how sad is that :cry: it's not your fault BM its just that kids just grow up so much quicker these days ;)
That's sad Beth about the blackbirds. We had the same thing happen last year. The adults just simply vanished, then rodents or something must have raided the nest a few days later as it was totally cleared out :unsure: . I don't know why, but blackbirds not making it really makes me sad!
BM we have starlings here and there sounds like quite a few in the nest, so I'm expecting to see them on the grass soon. The adults are very beady and send out alarm calls when they see my boy cat sunbathing outside :rolleyes: . Gawd help them when they do venture out, his den is right under their nest! :o
Bonkers Mad!!!
23-05-09, 07:17 AM
my starlings must have only had one baby. they havent been back at all since yesterday morning so i'm pretty positive it was their baby that Sam ate :(. they are very annoying little birds but it's still sad.
My babies are growing fast they are still quite brown and speckled but gorgeous to watch them in the garden :) We've got loads of baby starlings and sparrows too all fighting for food :lol:
I now have a ringed neck dove who has decided to make a nest on the bracket of our small satellite dish :doh: there is not much room between the dish and the wall but she is sitting up there on a few sticks which is the nest :huh: My only hope is that the eggs don't fall out of this flimsy nest .. especially as we walk underneath it to get to the garage :lol:
I'm using an older thread to post this :)
We have had lots of baby blackbirds in our garden this year some are so friendly that they follow Mr O around the garden when he is digging :lol:
However yesterday morning there was a baby blackbird sitting on our 6ft fence all puffed up, well is was bit cold :cold: anyway after a while it jumped down onto a small bird bath we had, with its back to us again all huddled up. I went off to work and when I came home I asked Mr O what happened to the bird and he said it disappeared and he hadn't seen it.
I was a bit worried as where it had been sitting on the birdbath there was runny droppings - I had a look round the garden and a few feet away was the baby laying in the corner of the garden covered in bluebottle flies ... dead :cry: It was so sad, it must have been ill; I did see a female blackbird go over to the corner but just thought it was having a drink out of a sunken bird bath we have but she must have gone over to the baby :cry: I picked it up and there was nothing I could do except wrap it up in paper and put it in the re-cycling bin (which I hate doing). It was really sad as watching the babies are such a joy to watch at this time of year :cry:
Aw :cry: that is so sad
we have a nest right outside the back door again, get shouted at everytime I let the dog out! we are a bit concerned as mum seems very flighty and will leave the nest for ages, dad is braver adn will sit on the nest and watch us when we are outside
we had a magpie attack last week so i am wondering if the blackbirds are trying again, as it seems that it has taken ever such a long time for the orginal eggsd to hatch
Could be Beth, talk about Magpies my mum heard a terrific commotion in her garden last week and went to have a look - there was a magpie standing with its wings outstretched out over a ring neck dove pecking at it :angry: She done no more that grabbed a bucket of water and threw it over the magpie, luckily when the magpie flew off the dove shook itself and flew off up into a tree - Bl**dy Magpies I don't like them :angry:
:lol: good on your mum!
i dont like maggies, but its hard coz its not their fault they are magpies and that is the way they are :(
Awww,sorry to hear about the baby blackbird such a shame.
I love the birds in my garden i hate it when something happens to them :angry:
Aww poor baby birds :-(, i have a problem with rooks and starlings they attack all the little birds and the wood pidgeons/ doves, the rooks are so cocky you can get up to them and then they flyaway i lie in wait with the hose pipe lol
i know they all have to eat but leave some for the little ones.
Dont the black birds singing sound lovely :-)
so happy :clap2: just watched mum and dad blackbird feeding the babies in the nest :clap2: there are at least 2 babies, it was hard to see but there were at least 2 sets of ickle beaks wide open! and lots of chirping LOL
that made my day :yes:
:wub: how wonderful, isn't it great to see this pity they grow so quickly - soon be runing around your garden :)
I hope so :D
I have just been digging the garden simply so they can get more worms :lol:
Mr O did the same! Aren't we silly sometimes :lol:
:lol: glad its not just me then :rolleyes:
:doh: there are 3 baby black birds :D no wonder mum and dad have been so busy, now they are bigger their heads stick above the nest at grub time :lol:
I am really trying to get a pic but dont want to upset mum and dad :)
(just been collecting snails for them!)
durhamguy
17-06-10, 09:30 PM
hi...i have a nest between my garage and shed and there are two blackbird chicks and 3 eggs in it at the moment..its so lovely to see them grow from nothing...wots the best food to lay out for the mother and chicks....i keep putting bread out but is that enough
NO!!!!!
dont put bread out :no: it will swell in the babies tummies and might hurt them, also to be honest there is hardly any goodness in bread :no: some people say you should soak bread in water first :yes:
they like worms and snails :D and the babies get their moisture from the worms as they dont drink at this point :)
you dont have to do much .....every couple of days turn some soil in your garden if you can, mum and dad will then find the worms, and I have been going round my plant pots each morning and wiping off snails that have set up home there the night before, persoanlly I think BB are cleverer than thrushes, as a thrush will waste energy bashing a snail, the Black bird will turn the snail over stick its beak in and pull out the snail!
great to watch :D
hope your babaies grow strong and healthy :)