Am sure they will this year @Sheps They were definitely much earlier than usual. I presume they have a second lot of chicks now as the adults are practically under my feet looking for food whenever I do anything, they are usually brave but much more so than usual at the moment
Many years ago when I used to spend a lot of time in Norfolk, the ones in the carpark at RSPB Titchwell would hop into your car and hover up any crumbs.
We have a pair of robins feeding a brood in a nestbox in the corner of our terrace right by the big sliding studio door. They’re very tame … a few years ago we provided live mealworms for them and they become so tame they’d take them from our hands.
We stopped doing this when they started to come indoors searching for us to provide food for them … they would come in open windows and doors, and we were worried that we’d not spot them and they might become trapped indoors if we locked up and went out.
However it was lovely to have a robin perched on the back of the rocking chair shouting at me to put down my knitting and get his lunch!!! 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My little friend is back. Definitely black legs and speckled all over. He really looks like a very little starling but I thought they lived in flocks. Definitely has a pointy black beak. Update: Definitely a juvenile robin. Compared him with Google images
Nice to have him/her around @B3. That little one in the pic I posted was around for a fair while, but another one hounded it. He was a bit of a poor wee soul though. That's incredible how early those are @Jellyfire. Birds are only just nesting/producing just now here, even with the mild conditions. Always difficult for the little birds as they can easily get annihilated by weather. I met a lovely chap last week who is monitoring the tree sparrow population here. They've declined by something like 95%. This is the only colony on the south side of Glasgow, and they've currently got 5 viable nests. His son makes the nest boxes. We had a lovely chat ,and he was saying they're trying to increase and 'join up' the colonies in this area to the ones further north and slightly east. Hopefully, we won't get a bad May like last year, and they'll be ok. When I was out today, there was a pair sitting in one of the other trees with a nest box.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Its incredibly sad @Fairygirl, Sparrows used to be everywhere when I was little, we barely see them here these days. Hopefully the work people are doing will help though
It was sheer luck that I met him - I'd gone out a bit later than usual. He sounded very positive, and I'll keep looking out for them when I go that way. We have the right habitat round here, but he was saying that's the main reason for the decline. Habitat disappearing. Like so many instances - whether it's birds or anything else. We have loads of house sparrows, but I only see tree sparrows if I really look. At a distance, all you see is a little brown bird, which could be almost anything!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Many years ago when I used to spend a lot of time in Norfolk, the ones in the carpark at RSPB Titchwell would hop into your car and hover up any crumbs.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Definitely black legs and speckled all over. He really looks like a very little starling but I thought they lived in flocks. Definitely has a pointy black beak.
Update:
Definitely a juvenile robin. Compared him with Google images
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That little one in the pic I posted was around for a fair while, but another one hounded it. He was a bit of a poor wee soul though.
That's incredible how early those are @Jellyfire. Birds are only just nesting/producing just now here, even with the mild conditions. Always difficult for the little birds as they can easily get annihilated by weather.
I met a lovely chap last week who is monitoring the tree sparrow population here. They've declined by something like 95%. This is the only colony on the south side of Glasgow, and they've currently got 5 viable nests. His son makes the nest boxes. We had a lovely chat ,and he was saying they're trying to increase and 'join up' the colonies in this area to the ones further north and slightly east. Hopefully, we won't get a bad May like last year, and they'll be ok.
When I was out today, there was a pair sitting in one of the other trees with a nest box.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We have loads of house sparrows, but I only see tree sparrows if I really look. At a distance, all you see is a little brown bird, which could be almost anything!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...