Fledgelings.

[FrenchieBoy]

It's that time of the year now for fledgelings to start finding their wings. I found this little fella this morning waiting outside our front door when I went out to enjoy a pipe full of Black Cherry Tobacco. It was just huddled up against our front door and didn't seem interested in moving when I bent down to say "Good morning" to it and seemed pretty friendly (Although I think it was more frightened than anything else). I gently picked it up and put it on the flower garden and gave it half an hour watching it from inside our window. It was moving OK with no visible signs of any injury so I guess that it had decided it was time to leave the nest without anything sinister having happened to it. It didn't bother moving straight away but as we have the neighbours cat prowls round our front garden I decided it would be safer to put it in our back flower garden where we don't tend to get any cats on the prowl as Harley (Our dog) tends to "see them off" with rather loud audible warnings while he tries getting out of the window to get at them.
I know it's only nature but cats (I'm not really a cat lover but I wouldn't intentionally harm one) can be a real problem for fledgelings at this time of the year so please keep an eye out for fledgelings and try to give them a bit of a chance!

 

[willie_gunn]

Our cocker spaniel "retrieved" a fledgling from the garden the other day. As a result sadly it was never going to get any older

We have both a wren and a great tit using different nestboxes in our garden, so we are blanking those off to prevent a repetition.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

Like you Willy we have a few birds use our garden for nesting. We have a Robin nested in one thick bush and a Wren in another.
I love to see as many song birds as possible around our garden, to me they are a breath of fresh air listening to them singing first thing in the morning and in the evenings, especially the Blackbirds.

 

[willie_gunn]

Like you Willy we have a few birds use our garden for nesting. We have a Robin nested in one thick bush and a Wren in another.
I love to see as many song birds as possible around our garden, to me they are a breath of fresh air listening to them singing first thing in the morning and in the evenings, especially the Blackbirds.

Yes, we have the bird feeders up right outside the kitchen window, and we see birds using them all day long.

Our bedroom is straight above, and with the window open it means I can use the dawn chorus as my alarm clock. It is lovely to lie there and listen to the songs of the various birds that frequent the garden.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

We too have a bird feeder in our back garden where we can see it when we are relaxing in our sitting room, and Yes I agree that there is nothing better than waking up to a good "dawn chorus"!

 

[jall55]

Brilliant

My cocker spaniel has to be kept on a tight ish reign ie watched like a hawk for the next few weeks because she and increasingly one of her daughters see them as things to chase.

This morning they older dog caught a crow fledgling as i was putting her in the car on the drive !
Not a bad thing but one not to be encouraged

 

[downwind]

I have a nest box in full view of my lounge chair. Our busy pair of Tits are raising their second brood for the year. They're very partial to peanut butter that I provide in my home made feeder

 

[willie_gunn]

Brilliant

My cocker spaniel has to be kept on a tight ish reign ie watched like a hawk for the next few weeks because she and increasingly one of her daughters see them as things to chase.

This morning they older dog caught a crow fledgling as i was putting her in the car on the drive !
Not a bad thing but one not to be encouraged

When we were visiting Sutherland each summer we had to do the same with both our cockers, otherwise the meadow pipit nests would take a hammering

 

[FrenchieBoy]

I have a nest box in full view of my lounge chair. Our busy pair of Tits are raising their second brood for the year. They're very partial to peanut butter that I provide in my home made feeder

But CP would have everyone think that shooters are not interested in anything except killing things!
Nice on Mate!

 

[snake_2586]

Found this little chap on one of the farm tracks earlier, so I caught him and moved him out of the way, it's brilliant to see the parents still find them and carry on feeding them

 

[potshotpat]

That look on the second picture means according to Doctor Dolittle.He's going to have you.

 

[Foxyboy43]

What’s not to love? Thanks to a significant strike rate on the magpies we have a superb hatch of pretty much everything just now. My friend and his pal Mr Larsen did such a great job this year.

 

[downwind]

Nearly at the point of fledging, being tempted out by the adult bird with a tasty morsel.

 

[kes]

Lost a family of 8 mallard chicks to magpie predation in the last 4 days. Larsen trap obviously needs resiting before we have any more come to the pond.
These days, one has to expect/ confirm predation of a 'red list' specie before you can use the general licence to cull in Wales. I am thinking they will be taking all the non redlist species like mad this year and plenty of the redlist ones as well.
So much for letting nature take its course in Wales. Shows that the Welsh labour lefties have never visited the countryside and Natural Environment Wales are a stupifyingly inflexible bunch.

 

[Len the dog]

Now is the time to hit the magpies, they can utterly decimate broods in no time.

 

[Franchi Matt]

Our blue tit chicks got abandoned.... the male got whacked by a sparrow hawk shortly after the eggs hatched. The female did a fantastic job for some time but the late frosts and lack of grubs in the oaks meant she had to abandon them...
However- the Jackdaws in the chimney again have had more sucess

 

[Franchi Matt]

Now is the time to hit the magpies, they can utterly decimate broods in no time.

Witnessed this just today - magpies drawing a pigeon off the nest.

 

[bullet chucker]

Not a fledgling but a baby rabbit today cornered' in a scrap of cover by two Cocker Spaniels. Mrs BC raised the alarm with "They have got some thing" I gave the command "Leave it" which the youngster did only then to allow the old boy to commence the chase, a surprisingly direct hit with the small water bottle I was carrying, to the side of the old boys face was enough to allow the bunny to escape, only to the side of a small branch thinking we now could not see it? But it seemed unscathed thankfully. Then we heard a cuckoo, I hope he finds who he is calling?

BC.

 

[vizslamad]

This is where Robins nested, unbelievably we had one postman who still kept stuffing mail in. A true conservationist.

 

[Franchi Matt]

This is where Robins nested, unbelievably we had one postman who still kept stuffing mail in. A true conservationist.View attachment 258778

You have a postman? have you any idea how rare a sight that is in most of the UK right now?


Can you get a snap of said postman....? Be handy to jog my memory as to what they look like and save me jumping on a complete stranger for trespassing by mistake