We’ve had a family of robins in the garden for the last few days, taking advantage of our feeders and foliage. There are three fledglings – one more advanced that hops about and helps itself, the other two still persistant beggars, trying it on with any passer by! It must be hard work for the […]
After much anxiety over the fate of our blackbirds’ nest we spotted this baby blackbird in the garden yesterday, and another glimpse this morning! It is not very pretty, all legs and beak, and is being kept well out of sight in the shrubbery for now, with Mum diving in at regular intervals with a […]
Last Friday morning I spotted our blackbird’s nest lying on the lawn under the dense laurel that it had been built in – disaster! Although we have never actually seen the nest before we have been watching Mrs Blackbird for weeks to’ing and fro’ing with materials, and then more recently food, and although only 30-40% […]
We spotted the first baby bird of the season on our lawn this weekend – a baby robin, how sweet! Managed to get a snap of its parent shoving food into its gape… We are expecting to see baby blackbirds any day now – the parents are hard at work gathering food. The breeding season […]
Today I saw a baby squirrel being carried in its mother’s mouth! At first I couldn’t make sense of the sight, dreading that the squirrel’s burden would be one of our blackbird’s nestlings. But no, it was a small upside down mammal – and not a rat, or a sleepy doormouse, but a compliant baby […]