Update:- Frenzied activity in the Coal Tit hole!!!! By the sound of it there're eleventy seven of them in there!!!! I'm very excited..it's about 15' from my chair!
As I faddled about I could hear all the cheeping but as I moved across the front, total silence! How do they know???
I'll maybe move some pots around later to give them a bit of cover when they come out. At the minute it's a straight drop onto stones.
Oh exciting Plant Pauper! Let us know how it goes! Loving everyones pictures. Spring time is such a wonderful time to be around wildlife. Sadly, the fledging disappeared next door a few hours after the picture was taken. I could hear it for a few hours after but I couldnt see the parents returning from my upstairs window and havent heard it calling for a day now. I don't hold out much hope for the little guy. It does make me question the merits of having a nest box as I live in a terrace house with quite a skinny garden and while my garden is as wildlife friendly as possible my neighbours' gardens arent.
Ecokid: the parents have probably enticed it away somewhere safer where they can feed him/her and siblings for a few weeks while they become independent, which they do surprisingly quickly....this is quite normal. Likely they are in an oak tree somewhere, maybe a local park.
Do you live in town or country? Finding the caterpiller food for the brood can be challenging in urban environments and productivity is lower than in the wider countryside.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
The only soft landing I could find with a bit of cover was the two six packs of verbena that fell into my boot the other day. One of the adults flew to the hole, stopped at the entrance and had a long hard look at the new landscaping!
Ecokid: the parents have probably enticed it away somewhere safer where they can feed him/her and siblings for a few weeks while they become independent, which they do surprisingly quickly....this is quite normal. Likely they are in an oak tree somewhere, maybe a local park.
Do you live in town or country? Finding the caterpiller food for the brood can be challenging in urban environments and productivity is lower than in the wider countryside.
Hey Redwing - I do hope so! I live in a town, but close to a busy A road in the South West. However there is lots of green spaces fairly close (sadly due to be built on in the near future ).
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This is what passes for 5* accomodation for coal tits around these parts. I'd no idea that hole was even there till one of them flew out!
I had to put a stick there because there had been a buddleja that needed to be potted up and they were using it to get in and out.
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Isn't Nature marvellous!
Update:- Frenzied activity in the Coal Tit hole!!!! By the sound of it there're eleventy seven of them in there!!!! I'm very excited..it's about 15' from my chair!
As I faddled about I could hear all the cheeping but as I moved across the front, total silence! How do they know???
I'll maybe move some pots around later to give them a bit of cover when they come out. At the minute it's a straight drop onto stones.
Oh exciting Plant Pauper! Let us know how it goes! Loving everyones pictures. Spring time is such a wonderful time to be around wildlife. Sadly, the fledging disappeared next door a few hours after the picture was taken. I could hear it for a few hours after but I couldnt see the parents returning from my upstairs window and havent heard it calling for a day now. I don't hold out much hope for the little guy. It does make me question the merits of having a nest box as I live in a terrace house with quite a skinny garden and while my garden is as wildlife friendly as possible my neighbours' gardens arent.
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Ecokid: the parents have probably enticed it away somewhere safer where they can feed him/her and siblings for a few weeks while they become independent, which they do surprisingly quickly....this is quite normal. Likely they are in an oak tree somewhere, maybe a local park.
Do you live in town or country? Finding the caterpiller food for the brood can be challenging in urban environments and productivity is lower than in the wider countryside.
The only soft landing I could find with a bit of cover was the two six packs of verbena that fell into my boot the other day. One of the adults flew to the hole, stopped at the entrance and had a long hard look at the new landscaping!
Hey Redwing - I do hope so! I live in a town, but close to a busy A road in the South West. However there is lots of green spaces fairly close (sadly due to be built on in the near future
).
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Woo hoo. The great tits fledged today. Teeny fluttery feather dusters round the garden.
Excellent news ladybird.
There's nothing happening here...insert tense smilie face!!!!