Update on our baby tits [sad] [smile]

A swan swam past on the river at the front of our hose this morning, with 4 tiny cygnets. If it`s the same one that goes past here regularly, she`s increased her production line, she usually has 2 little ones each year, so I hope they all do well.

caz what a beautiful colour those eggs are.

sheena I would be a gibbering idiot worrying about all the dangers out there for the little fledglings ... all fingers crossed you can post a pic soon of them out in your garden.

My neighbour has a blackbird who has built a nest in his unused greenhouse.
I managed to take a quick snap when she was outside feeding.
There are 4 eggs which we are hoping will all hatch successfully.

Earlier we had a baby blue tit stun itself flying into our patio doors; DH picked it up and put it under a shrub, the parent bird arrived and was feeding it and thankfully its now gone.
Patio doors do have stuck on motif to try and warn birds but this diddy one was clearly too young to figure it out.

Excuse the grammar!

I've got a garden full of blue tits this morning, in various trees, all shouting and singing. Seems like dozens of them. Shouldn't they all be nesting or couldn't this be them all fledging at the same time?

Earlier this week it was noisy baby starlings.

We have lots of sparrows here, and are always surprised when we read that they are on the decline. The Robins have two nests and are constantly fighting whilst the little wren just continues to dart in and out of the bushes and undergrowth minding her own business. I did not know that goldfinches were so aggressive.

Yes. I wish I could learn to love jays. It actually ventured onto the hanging bird feeder. And took a swig from the bird bath!

Sparrows are few and far between round here these days, which is amazing and sad. Was just watching a dunnock on the grass though, jumping up to get insects off the plants.

They are handsome birds though jing
We have a 3 nest box for sparrows and a tit box - absolutely nothing this year.

We've had a jay in the garden for a couple of days. Grrr..

That is amazing that you actually saw one of the parent birds removing the dead chick. So glad three are surviving.

I feel a bit cheated that we have had no nest in our box this year, but I definitely heard little twitterings from our Apple tree the other day, so we do have a new generation somewhere.

Hope your remaining three make it into the big wide world successfully.

Six ducklings following their mother along the canal at the back of our house on Monday. I haven't seen them since. I hope they are all OK.

We put out loads of food but to no avail, and always have done (peanuts, seed, suet slabs, Niger seed and mealworms)
It's now being scoffed by the crows, starlings and magpies

Lots of buzzards round here

Do you put food out for the birds loopylou? We always have seeds and nyjer seeds out, and peanuts too when there aren't any young about. Like you we have sparrow hawks roaming overhead once in a while, but luckily they seem to take the pigeons (unlucky for them ! ) more than anything else...

We have not seen sparrows here for years...and rarely see a thrush...but blackbirds, dunnocks, blue tits, great tits, and goldfinches are our most regular visitors (oh, and of course the wretched pigeons !) .
We have loads of the parakeets too, and when we first moved here 15 years ago we were absolutely amazed to see and hear them...but now they are just a flipping nuisance
We are right slap bang in the middle of suburbia but on the edge of the Downs so have some nice big open spaces round and about.

We do occasionally see a buzzard .. the only time we'd seen those was again years ago when we lived in Devon ..

Not a single baby dicky bird to be seen in my garden nor many adults (other than sodding magpies and crows) since sparrow hawk in the vicinity, I'm really quite upset.

Our nesting boxes are empty (had wrens last year), rarely see any of the smaller birds. We had blue, great and long-tail tits, nuthatch, robins, sparrows, wrens, great spotted woodpeckers, thrushes and blackbirds ever since we moved her 18+ years ago, now zilch.

I seem to have three baby great its o from one brood and one from a second ( younger) brood. Two bluetit chicks and heaven knows has many robins, I think I've two families.

Thanks for the update Sheena - I guess three out of seven in the natural world is pretty good but I'm no expert. Fingers crossed all goes well for the triplets!!

When I was still living in my parents house we had a nest box in the garden. Blue tits nested in it every summer. On a rather warm day I had left my bedroom window open. The fledglings decided to fly the nest and flew straight up and into my bedroom. They all managed to find their way out again.

Definitely survival of the fittest in nature, as sad as that can be. Even if those little ones had fledged the chances are they wouldn't have survived to adulthood because they were weaker from the start.

Very much hope the remaining three all fledge!