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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 7:14:12 GMT
Until yesterday, every time I opened our front door I would see our 'Blackie' sitting on her nest right by the side of the door.
This morning there was no immediate sign of Blackie, instead I was greeted by several little open beaks straining up and hoping to be fed. They think that the slightest sound of me opening the door might be Blackie returning with food.
Across the garden, sheltering under the eaves of our Garage, and nesting within touching distance of each other , we also have a resident Robin and a resident Great Tit.
Soon the garden will be overrun by fledgling Blackbirds, Robins, Great Tits, and other birds who regularly scavenge around for stuff but whose nest I haven't discovered.
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Post by james on Apr 15, 2018 13:13:52 GMT
Do I see a budding David "A" in the making. The modern thing to do is to set up a web cam on the nests, then the whole thing goes viral and you also get 15 minutes of fame with a BBC interview.
Enjoy Mike!!
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Post by Poppy on Apr 15, 2018 22:15:22 GMT
I love having birds and their babies in the garden.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 1:06:38 GMT
I do hope Mike does a picture of these baby birds.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 4:02:12 GMT
I do hope Mike does a picture of these baby birds. I'll see if I can take a picture a little later just before they open their eyes, but not at the cost of disturbing the parent birds too much. Trouble is that every day the foliage surrounding the nest is getting more dense. Baby birds open their eyes at about the moment when their quills begin to sprout into feathers. Once they've opened their eyes and see that its an adult bird that feeds them they clam up and no longer do the photogenic straining up at every approaching sound (I'm not going to set up a webcam as James suggested). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 8:50:30 GMT
Seems that the baby birds, whilst still unable to 'see', have very quickly learned to differentiate between the sound of parent birds arriving with food, and the sound of comings and goings via my front door.
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Post by Poppy on Apr 16, 2018 8:53:53 GMT
I do hope Mike does a picture of these baby birds. I'll see if I can take a picture a little later just before they open their eyes, but not at the cost of disturbing the parent birds too much. Trouble is that every day the foliage surrounding the nest is getting more dense. Baby birds open their eyes at about the moment when their quills begin to sprout into feathers. Once they've opened their eyes and see that its an adult bird that feeds them they clam up and no longer do the photogenic straining up at every approaching sound (I'm not going to set up a webcam as James suggested). If you were going to set up webcam you would need to it before they started nest building. My friends have a webcam in their bluetit box. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 11:23:29 GMT
I do hope Mike does a picture of these baby birds. I'll see if I can take a picture a little later just before they open their eyes, but not at the cost of disturbing the parent birds too much. Trouble is that every day the foliage surrounding the nest is getting more dense. Baby birds open their eyes at about the moment when their quills begin to sprout into feathers. Once they've opened their eyes and see that its an adult bird that feeds them they clam up and no longer do the photogenic straining up at every approaching sound (I'm not going to set up a webcam as James suggested). How about a painting? Are you up to that? Photos may be realistic, but paintings can have feeling or soul that cameras seldom catch. Whatever you do is fine with me, Mike. No pressure -- but why use a camera when you have the talent to paint them? |
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Post by james on Jun 7, 2018 11:25:08 GMT
No more news on the birds, over here the baby stork's are big and in a little while will be testing their wings. The parents looked very bedraggled yesterday, we had a thunder and lightening storm that came and went all day with periods of brilliant summer between the showers. One note worthy shower was hail, nothing to compare with Canada but I had never seen hail stones of a centimeter before.
I am sure Daniel put the pictures of the stork's on FB, one shows the parent bird regurgitating water to a baby.
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Post by james on Jul 9, 2018 4:53:59 GMT
Wonder why in all the updating this board did not get the Mike treatment, I guess a photo is out of the question at this late stage? 
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