Nothing as wonderful as that, but there is a patch of ivy on a fence that I am not permitted to touch for ages in the Spring as a robin family choose that place to have their nest every year - so happy to see them starting again each year. Daren't try and look, but take such joy in the new birds each year.
Oh I love Robins! We have them in the garden and they have no quarms in trying to get as close to to the shovel as possible when we're digging to get the best worms!
Yep that looks like a Robin's nest. My Dad had a pair of Blackbirds nest in his garden this spring and we 'think' they raised the young successfully.At one point there were three well feathered young in there and then the next week when I went to mow his lawn they were gone
Lucky you, we find it hard to keep the neighbours' cats away. They tend to wait under the bird table for the fledglings and the potato growbag might be easy to raid! Just lost some bluetits as they fledged........it was upsetting, and I love cats.
So keep watch if you can, a hoes spray is very handy.
The robin has been sitting on the eggs and doesn't seem to mind that I am constantly walking past her on crunchy gravel. The bag with the nest is right outside my studio door and also on the way to the veg bed. I only look at her out of the corner of my eye, so hopefully she thinks she has not been discovered. The other day my wonderful builder got up a ladder to adjust a roof tile that was slipping and found a bees nest there; he came down pretty sharpish. He says that the bees will always be there now; is this true?
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It does feel like that doesn't it, when a bird deigns to raise a family in your garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Nothing as wonderful as that, but there is a patch of ivy on a fence that I am not permitted to touch for ages in the Spring as a robin family choose that place to have their nest every year - so happy to see them starting again each year. Daren't try and look, but take such joy in the new birds each year.
Oh I love Robins! We have them in the garden and they have no quarms in trying to get as close to to the shovel as possible when we're digging to get the best worms!
Can't see the nest now as potato leaves have covered it; just as well, the birds will have a bit more privacy.
Cool- I hope they'll be back
How is the nest now? are there babies yet?
Yep that looks like a Robin's nest. My Dad had a pair of Blackbirds nest in his garden this spring and we 'think' they raised the young successfully.At one point there were three well feathered young in there and then the next week when I went to mow his lawn they were gone
Lucky you, we find it hard to keep the neighbours' cats away. They tend to wait under the bird table for the fledglings and the potato growbag might be easy to raid! Just lost some bluetits as they fledged........it was upsetting, and I love cats.
So keep watch if you can, a hoes spray is very handy.
The robin has been sitting on the eggs and doesn't seem to mind that I am constantly walking past her on crunchy gravel. The bag with the nest is right outside my studio door and also on the way to the veg bed. I only look at her out of the corner of my eye, so hopefully she thinks she has not been discovered. The other day my wonderful builder got up a ladder to adjust a roof tile that was slipping and found a bees nest there; he came down pretty sharpish. He says that the bees will always be there now; is this true?