Have you seen chicks in the nest this week?
| 16:21 UK time, Friday, 2 October 2009
We are getting reports from people up and down the country of chicks still being fed in the nest, in October? Quite a number of house martins in particular.
I hadn't realised how late some birds will still nest until I started looking into it, but if you have noticed chicks in the nest again this week, could you tell us below by posting a comment. We'd like to try to build up a picture of just how late birds are nesting this year, and which species they are.
Thank you very much!
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hi guys
where i work (at a converted horses stables to greyhound kennels) we have had birds flying around all summer and we have noticed a BIG increase in mubers of sparrows and robins slying around the dogs sending them MAD!! and the other day we noticed a pair keep flying into one part so we went to have a look and we found a nest of a few days old chicks...why is this happeneing??? and ideas????
Kestrel_lover x
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I have a nest box for blue tits i thought it was empty went to tidy it for spring as i do every year and there were EGGS in there
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It's a bit difficult to tell at the moment but there is a lot of suspicious activity from Blue Tits diving in and out under our thatch. I've never seen them there before.
But it's not just birds breeding late. I have been taking in very young hedgehogs (3-4 weeks old). This will be the second year in a row they've had late litters. Last winter I was brought a 6 week old hoglet on January 6th.
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Hi, we live in Derbyshire nr Chatsworth and I've noticed house martin chicks in the nest on our neighbours window.
autumnfan
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Regarding Autumn Chicks, we currently have a family of swallows still feeding chicks in the roof of my workshop. We live in Ythanwells, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. They come every year without fail, however we have never known them to be still trying to raise a brood this late on! My wife is worried they will be too late to migrate successfully, or the chicks will simply fail to fledge.
Best regards,
Terry & Alwyn
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We have Collared Doves nesting in the Garden this is the third brood this year, there was 2 chicks but today there is only 1.
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Hi
Just to let you know, we have 3 house martin chicks still in the nest above our bedroom window, in shropshire. Will they survive?? will they migrate this year?
Bex
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We have wood pigeons in the trees at the end of our garden they were nest building as late as a month ago, we have seen them flitting to and from the nest these past few weeks and heard cheeping.
They are 40ft up so no way to take a peek, but im very sure.
I thought i was going mad, as id never seen birds nesting so late.
We are in the midlands.
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We had three broods of Swallows this year the last only left the nest last week all four chicks survived.
Last year we also had three broods but only 2 out of 4 chicks survived
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Pigeons seem to nest virtually all year round. At the Wildlife Aid wild animal hospital in Leatherhead we currently have a clutch of eggs being brooded on the seat on our tractor-mower! Will post a photo.
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Hi, we live in Southwest Scotland & have got 3 swallows still in their nest, just about ready to fly. We also still have many house martins & swallows flying around!
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Hello - We live just outside Carlisle, Cumbria & have had several pairs of housemartins nesting in the eaves, most of them have gone now except for two pairs who are still feeding chicks - we thought this was very late, but didn't realise it was happening elsewhere.
Regards
Glen & Bill
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On Sunday we noticed that there is a nest of house martins in the eaves of The Crown Inn at Wentnor, Shropshire.
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Found a VERY young patchy-haired chick on a path 3 days ago, it appeared to have fallen out of a nest about 10 feet up a tree in a garden. The owner of the house informed me their cat had taken a shine to climbing the tree :S
Doesn't fair well for the rest of the brood unfortunately... :(
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We have been having a lot of interference with Sky for the last couple of weeks. On closer inspection of the Sky dish, we found a nest with a couple of baby collared doves snuggled up together in a rather precarious nest, they are looked after by a couple of loving parents.
Meanwhile we will have to put up with some bad reception on out TV until they fly the nest.....
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Here in Bradford, we have a 3rd brood of House martins in a nest on the house, at the moment. Quite a few juvenile sparrows about too.
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we have a pair of wood pigeons who have returned to their nest in our pittisporum (?) tree , just this week. No chix yet.
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We've had a pair of pigeons nesting right outside the back door of the house. The baby (which the children name "Eggbert" fledged and disappeared yesterday. Was lovely to watch him being fed and looked after by his parents though.
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i seen swallows or house martins ? feeding chicks today i live in Carlow republic of ireland they nest in an unused silo in the quarry where i work
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Havent seen any birds nesting, but weve got baby squirrels in the trees in our garden, have loved watching them, they appeared about 6 days ago, sweet little things, they come down from the trees via the sheds along with one of the parents and dig around and tease our cats!
We had squirrel babies back in the spring, but didnt expect more at this time of year!
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Hiya!
Above my boyfriends window there is a nest of swallows and are not flying yet! Mum and dad still feeding them as well.
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There are new swallow chicks at The Milky Way park in Cornwall. We saw them last week while we were on holiday!
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Hi
I noticed a young Blackbird 2 days ago whist walking the dog that had no tail and very young feathers, probably fledged that day.
Cheers, great show guys. Like the new look.
Andy
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Hi a house Martin's nest at Holywell, Northumberland contained large young this week.
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While in the kitchen on the afternoon of the second of october we noticed a Goldfinch with 4-5 VERY young on one of our bird feeders.
from Ann and George Crawford from Cheshire
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A pair of swallows were still feeding chicks in a nest at Logan Botanic Gardens near Stranraer, Scotland, on Monday Sept 28th. Very late!
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Hello,
I saw a nest of House Martins in Lilleshall Abbey in Shropshire last Saturday. There looked to be 4 chicks in the nest, which was stuck to the rib of the vaulted ceiling in the parlour. The parents were swooping in and feeding every minute while I was there. I tried to photograph them feeding the chicks, but my digital camera just wasn't up to the job. All I've managed to take is a blurred photo of a chick doing it's business out of the nest!
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I've seen a pigeon feeding very young chicks, in the nest, in my town just last week!
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I thought our swallows are a bit late in leaving this year.
Our second brood are very young but are flying, We live in Fife Scotland, and it is a touch colder here but my family of swallows are still playing and sleeping in the garage. I will miss them when the go
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We have a blue tit which appears to be feeding either a mate on eggs or a brood in a (new) bird box on the garage. Seems very late for them to have a chance of survival. This is in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
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We have our third family of house martins on a roof rafter in my
horses stable in East Hertfordshire.
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Along the Grand Union Canal between Slapton and Marsworth 2 weeks ago there was a LOT of martin activity around the eaves of a cottage. Many nests were visible and the sheer activity of adults suggested that many of these nests were still active.
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today I saw 2 very small duckling chicks in the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton - I have never seen this before - only ever seen them in the spring
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we have some wood pigeon chicks in a nest in a wisteria bush on the front. they hatched a week ago
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We have had our pair of local collared doves nest in the Wisteria over our pergola. The last time they did this was in spring 2005. This time they have raised two chicks who left the nest this morning. One of them has now taken up residence in the green-house. I am not sure of the whereabouts of the other one, but I expect it is somewhere in the garden and will make itself known at some time. The parent birds are still very attentive and still seem to feeding their young.
Regards
Martin Gregory
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20 Swallows on the Bt line yesterday.
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we have some wood pigeon chicks in a nest in a wisteria bush on the front of our house. they hatched a week ago. Pinner in north-west London
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I work near Handbridge Village in Chester and there are baby house martins (or swifts) in the eaves of the old houses in the village.
Will they be able to fly away for the winter?
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I was on a moor in Dumfrieshire today where I saw a Meadow Pippit nest with chicks, and also Wheatears feeding a young fledgling. I've also noticed that furhter north in Glasgow, birds are still alarming and obviously protecting nest sites and retrieving food (Blackbirds and Wrens)
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hi we have had house martins nesting in the same nest for the last 8 years,this years only chicks left the nest on tuesday this week, regards gillian
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I live in derby a nest of housemartins left the nest last week, one got stuck under the wheely bin, with a bit of help onto the garage roof it flew off. they built the nest high in the eaves very late in the summer.
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We have both Goldfinch and Greenfinch fledgings in our garden in Cumbria at the moment. A very young Greenfinch was almost taken by a hen sparrowhawk yesterday evening,(it was chased off by my partner) it looked like it had literally fledged that day.
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Not got any autumn chicks
but we did have moorhens on our large pind that had chicks in August
which we have never had before
infact the first pair of moorhens raised two broods then we had a different pair that came and had this brood in August
not normal
Greg
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Still have House Martin's feeding young in the nest on our house in West Yorkshire.
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House Martins still brooding minimum of 3 young in nest.(Wiltshire)
Swallows left last week.
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Hi
We have 2 collared dove chicks in a nest in our apple tree at the moment. I dont think that they are much more than a week old, but seem to be doing well.
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We live just north of Kendal in Cumbria. We have put up two house martin nests which we thought were being used as Blue Tit roosts overnight. In the last two weeks there has been a lot of activity with both male and female birds popping in and out all day though I haven't actually seen them carrying anything in.
Unfortunately we can't get a look in.
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Hi!
Have been camping at Pinewoods Holiday Park, Wells-next-the-sea (near Pensthorpe!!!) this week and we were camping next to a tree which had a nest with either a pigeon or a dove in it that had chicks!!!
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The house martins that nest above our front door left with their last brood this week. This is the third year in a row that they have had another brood and not left until the end of September/ beginning of October.We live on the Dorset / Somerset border.
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We have a family of Goldfinches that regularly feed in our small urban garden, we are sure they have had three broods this year, is this common?
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Three Great Crested Grebe chicks hatched 20th September at Stowe Gardens, Bucks. Saw two juveniles with adult on lake today (3rd October).
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Hi Martin. As you know if I have 10 house martin nests. Something has attacked the nests. They are one by one being destroyed. In the spring I saw a magpie attack a nest. Could Magpies be responsible for this vandelism?
Jon cox (your previous Production Manager)
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Hi, when we were walking past our village pond, in Heacham, Norfolk, on Wednesday we spotted a mallard duck with 6 tiny duckings swimming across the pond.
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Saw an 'only just fledged' robin today bobbling about in a flower border along with it's parent ... thought I was mistaken to start with as it is so late in the year but got a really good view and was definately a speckly junior robin !!
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"Chick chatter" has been heard for last week in the street Lime tree outside the house. Yesterday (1st oct) a baby white collar/wood pigeon fell from the tree. Very obvious down feathers still. Unable to fly and mother spent all day feeding it as well as trying to encourage it to a safer place. Chick was still alive this morning - sitting on the windscreen wiper of my car. Mum still feeding it.
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A row of around 10 nests under the eaves of a house at Kilnsea East Yorks were all still occupied by young birds being fed by their parents last week end.
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2nd October
Wood pigeon nesting in garden in North Chichester, Sussex
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i havnt actually seen chicks in the nest but yesterday at work in marlborough wiltshire i found a discarded wood pigeon eggshell freshley hatched because the blood from the sac was still fresh to say i was surprised by this is an understatement is it possible at this time of year for wood pigeons to be fooled by the recent warm weather to produce a brood and if so what would be the chances if any of them being successful ash potterne
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We returned from our holiday 2 weeks ago to discover a pidgeon has made a nest in the bush above our front door. She has been sat on the nest since our return and there is at least one egg.
Is this usual?
What will happen if an chick hatches? Will it survive?
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The last fledgling of the last house martin brood nesting at our cottage flew the nest last Tuesday. However, the family are doing 'day trips' returning to the nest in the evening - all the other martins and swallows left about two weeks ago.
Cheers
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We have pigeons sitting on a couple of eggs now, a Robin singing it's spring song next door, we have a the Hen of the cock robin who died of old age this year (he was here when we moved in, in 2001 and used to sit and feed from my hand) She's singing short songs as well, didn't know the females sang. She sat on 3 clutches this year and hatched only one chick, which died as well, very sad year for our robins.
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For the last 2 weeks we have had a wood pigeon building a nest and now sitting in a Beech tree in our garden, visited regularly by it's mate. Not great as the leaves will soon start to fall we live in North Cambridgeshire.
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u have been talking about baby bird on the nests this late in the year. we saw a baby pigeon and mum on the nest @ framlingham castle in suffolk. the baby hardly had any feathers so it was really young.
is it normal 4 them 2 nest and have babies this late. i have a picture of this 2.
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house martin chicks only flew from nest 10 days ago.
black birds are defending nest site.
soparrows collecting dog hair which fell out from grooming.
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Are still fairly young ducklings on our local river.
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We have a new nest of collared doves currently sitting on eggs here in our garden in Chelmsford. I know they have a long breeding season, but it's the first time I've seen them in our garden this late.
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Robins also seem to be singing spring songs and male is checking out shed, green house etc. Not food hunting, looking at the shelves, etc and even went in the old flower pots where nested before...
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Wood pigeons are sitting on eggs in my Wisteria at the moment. This seems really late for chicks to thrive and fledge or isn't it ?
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I was having a bit of a clean-up in my garden last week and saw in my crabapple tree what looked just like a pile of old sticks, leaves and accumulated rubbish. The tree has honeysuckle growing all over and the canopy is a bit of a tangle and so I thought I would clear out some of this mess. I took a stick and began pushing at this mess when from it flew a wood pigeon and two eggs fell to the ground! We had these birds nesting in a holly tree earlier in the year but never considered this could have been another nest.
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Hi, i have sparrow chicks that have just fledged this week, 7 being fed. Hooray for sparrows, first time seen in my garden for 4 years.
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Blacbirds seen carrying nesting materials into a hedgerow this morning, Angmering, West Sussex.
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We've been hearing the distinct sound of a very young owl giving a "baby cry" in Gomm's Wood near High Wycombe for a couple of weeks now.
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Hello, I just thought I would let you know I have had Swallows nesting in my Garage for about 3-4 years now.
They usually raise 2 clutches, however this year they have raised their 3rd clutch, which have just started their first flight today!
This a first for our pair, and somewhat unusual I thought, so I thought I would let you all know.
Angela
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South Bucks. One robin family currently feeding (at the nest) either a second or third brood.
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OK, not this year but last, and not quite so late in the year - 8th Sept 2008, we spotted some Swallows still in the nest in Wales and still being fed by their parents - see Flickr link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/24989044@N04/2914113449/in/set-72157604404957002/
I mention it by way of a possible trend, also noting that the weather was not as good last year, indeed in Wales it was very Wales-like...
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Noticed lots of posts about pigeons and doves still with young. This is not that unusual, especially considering the mild weather. All the pigeon family, I think all (ie Columbidae (?? !) - pigeons and doves) are well known for breeding all year round given the chance. Certainly 'town pigeons' but also woodpigeons and collared doves will often be found nesting or with young in the middle of winter. If their instinct tells them that the weather is mild enough I guess there's nothing to lose in giving it a go! I think more birdspecies than we truly realise have the capability of successfully breeding well outside the traditional accepted breeding season. The more chicks parent birds can get out in a season/year the better for passing on there genes, the ultimate goal.
Sorry for rambling on a bit!
Cya.
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It was funny that baby swallows were mentioned on todays show.
this morning i herd birds churping in a front garden and looking to what it was i saw a group of baby house sparrows bugging to be fed by the parent.
i was amazed that there would be a brood so late in the year.
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Hi, we live on the edge of a town in East Anglia, across the road are open fields and woodlands so we always have birds nesting in the garden. For the past few years we have had wood pidgeons nesting in the wisteria during the spring/summer. This year, however, they started building the nest in August and the the chick (one only) flew 3 days ago.
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There is a pigeon chick in a nest built in a hanging basket outside our shop in central Gloucester. It has survived being watered regularly and is feeding and flapping well
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On 20 September 2009 we started pruning our bay tree. We noticed old nests in the tree as we were cutting it down, but did not imagine that any of them would contain chicks. Later in the day, when we were 2/3rds through pruning we noticed a wood pigeon staying close by, despite the sound of the chain saw. We just thought it was probably confused to see its roosting spot being disturbed. The next morning we noticed a wood pigeon in the tree sitting on a nest that we had assumed would have been long discarded. However, there were 2 chicks inside. The chicks must have been terrified. The nest is now horribly exposed, and naturally when we realised chicks were inside we stopped all work on the tree. For the past 2 weeks the parent birds have been busy feeding the chicks, they are now about the size of a small collared dove and today one flew a short distance to get to its parent. The other chick is slightly smaller and still on the nest but I am assuming will probably go tomorrow. We were so sorry that we had invaded their space and security but despite this the parents have nurtured these chicks despite everything. No wonder wood pigeons are successful!
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First moved here about ten years ago when there were three house martin nests under the eaves. They always seemed to turn up late: first, second or even third week in May. They were also worryingly late in departing after what I reckoned was their second brood(s): as late as 12 to 14 October by which time most of the local population had long departed.
This year the first one arrived on 11 April and there was a full house ( six pairs by this year) within the fortnight to 25 April. They have produced two broods and left by about 25 September. But I noticed an extra nest on the adjoining house which neither I nor my neighbour had previously noticed. They are still feeding young ( as of today 2 October), .....late just like the original ones we first encountered here!
Location NN6 7TP Northamptonshire
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SWALLOW CHICKS AT FOUNTAINS ABBEY IN YORKSHIRE
Hi On the 25th of September we saw two swallow chicks being fed in their nest at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. The nest was above the modern entrance on the overhead steel structure. Have a look if you go there. I shall visit again on the 4th Oct and I shall let you know how they are.
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Woodpigeons nesting outside my office window in Colchester,Essex, despite human proximity. They are also still breaking off twigs in the garden for nesting.
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Two weeks ago a pair of Great Crested Grebes were on our local park lake at Welwyn Garden City and the mother had two tiny babies in her back. Hopefully they will survive - I've never seen young this late.
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Sadly all our Swallows have gone after having a very successfull breeding summer, at one time up to about 10 - 12 nests in the outbuidings, most nests having two broods. Now very quiet about the place apart from the garden birds.
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I visited Slimbridge on Thursday this week and whilst watching lapwings and snipe to name a couple, we were joined by a wood pigeon nest with two chicks sat waiting for their next meal in one of the hides!
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My wife is tells me there are currently House Martin chics in the nest at her playgroup based in Pencombe Village Hall, Herefordshire.
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Hi,
We have 5 house martin nests on our house and we still have babys in 3 of the nests, parents still feeding them. Its nice to hear them but they are outside every bedroom window and like to make a lot of noise. brilliant show thanks.
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No chicks seen in nest but fledged Bullfinches being fed by a male parent have been seen on our bird table.
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Hi there to the Autumnwatch Team
We live on the edge of Cannock Chase in the West Midlands and our neighbor has a House Martin's nest with young still being fed although we think about to fledge
Not sure where to put this next bit of info but we were very worried about BLACKBIRDS visiting our garden during spring and summer this year. Many had BALD places. Not just the odd feather missing, but complete, white skin showing, bald bits, mostly on one or other side of their heads but one was bald all over his breast and one side of his head. This phenomemon was only seen in MALES (about 5 or 6 of them) and other than this, they seemed healthy in every other respect. However, they all soon disapeared from our garden altogether. On visiting The Long Mynd near Church Stretton in Shropshire during June, we observed a JACKDAW with the same balding problem. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this may be occuring?
Loved the first show Team. Looking forward to the next 7 episodes
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We live in the Waveney Valley on the Norfolk/Suffolk boarder & the swallows in our stables (now work shop) have had 3 broodes, the last babies have just fledged & are still making a lot of mess!
Last year the swallows used the blackbirds nest, after an owl stole the adult blackbird chicks from the nest, which we witnessed. Sad but amazing. I also saw a hawk snatch one of the fledgling swallows from the air. It's wildlife magic here!
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We saw young swallows still in the nest at Carreg Cennen Castle in the Brecon Beacons on 19th September
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We live in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, and every year have around 25 used swallows' nests in our wooden outbuildings. Some of these nests have yielded 2 or 3 successful families. Right now we have four of these nests still in use. Two have mothers sitting on eggs, one has one week old chicks, and one has newly hatched young.
Every year in late September I am anxious about the ability of the late families to succeed, but they always do. They stay about a week after the young start flying, then they leave. This year is definitely later than usual but it is not too cold and there are still a lot of insects for food.
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We live in Leeds and in our garden we see a pair of Goldfinches feeding on our niger seed feeder daily, early this year they had two chicks in the first brood then four in the second brood and this last 5 days we have witnessed the pair feeding two young fledlings and we even saw the chicks on the feeder today at 17.00 feeding themselves
This is very late in the year ?
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As of October 2nd, we have a pair 2-week old Wood Pigeons chicks sat in a nest in a nearby Hawthorn tree. They are doing very well :) - The parent birds can hardly get on the 'nest' / pile of twigs, they are growing so incredibly fast ! - Have uploaded a couple of videos tonight - We have a small video camera attached to a stick, poked high up into the branches. The nest was used last year as well, possibly by the same parent birds - There's a short video of that particular nest / 'Squab' feeding session in 2008's 'Best Of' video section.
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House Martins nesting on our wall in Cornwall are still feeding two chicks of second brood - hoping weather doesn't prevent them from fledging and leaving for Africa. Also this nest is an RSPB nest and was bought after two successive years of nest collapses. First time this year that it has been occupied - Brilliant!!
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we have 2 house martin nests that are just about finished, but the nest at the front corner of the house belonging to a dove still has mum dove sat on it.This is the third time she has been sat like this having had two successful broods already this year. Don't know if this is usual, this is our first year with doves.
Love the show, kindest regards to Bill, glad he's getting better.
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For the past five years we have been fortunate enough to have swallows nest in our garage. There have always been two broods minimum, last year it was three broods and we were concerned when two juveniles were left here when the parents and earlier hatchings left them behind. However, after one and then two weeks, they too departed, we presumed they got together with other migrating parties. This year two broods were produced quite quickly and the male was keen to go again, very noisy chats took place over ten days in the garage, but the lady was not moved this year. Another thing is that ours left very early this year, we have had no sightings since 16 September.
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Hi
We had wood pigeons nesting in our garden. I say had becasue there were 2 chicks until 4 days ago when we found 1 dead on floor and other dead in nest. We live nr Winchester
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We have Wood Pigeons nesting in trees out in our back garden and seems very unusual for this time of year. My daughters find them very interesting though :-).
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Hi, we have a wood pigeon which has nested in our garden. The single chick has fallen from the nest and now sits under a bush nearby. The parents are feeding it regularly and all seems fine. The chick is a decent size but hasn't developed a full set of feathers yet and has a bald head!
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we have a collard dove chick, still being fed in the nest, at Fiton, Bristol.
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Hi again,
Sorry, but I should have said that the Wood Pigeon with the bald head lives in Ringwood, Hampshire.
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we have a collard dove chick, still being fed in the nest, at Fiton, Bristol.We think one parent has been killed by a sparrowhawk, will the chick survive?
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Whilst pruning a large cotoneaster shrub in our garden in Lichfield this week, we discovered a collared dove nest with two (seemingly still quite young) chicks. The parent birds are still attending to the nest - we just hope the chicks fledge before the weather gets worse!
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This is not a nice post, however, thought I would let the team know that my "dear" cat brought in a very young fledgling last week, not sure what is was - possibly a starling. I was very surprised to see this young chick on my floor this time of year. I live in Southern England, Stubbington near Fareham.
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We live in North Devon (Umberleigh) and regulaarly have swallows and house martins nest on our house and in our barn. Normally we have up to eight nests but this year we only had three. One of the nests were house martins who have had a second brood which are currently still being fed. We live on the river Taw and have noticed many swallows and house martins swooping over the water surface carching flies and insects.
We have lived here for twelve years and have noticed a significant reduction in wildlife on the river (fewer ducks,moorhens, salmon and sea troat and swans). We suspect that the reduction in birds maybe due to mink.
Over the years we have have seen otters on several occasions.
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We have two very young collared dove chicks in a nest in the garden ( Clacton, Essex) but a much more exciting thing happened last weekend. Our house backs onto open fields and we very often we get birds flying into the conservatory by that i mean through the open doors and into the house. I very often find bird poo in the lounge and on the walls. I was in the kitchen and my husband in the lounge when he shouted to me that we had a pigeon inside. By the time i got to him it had become obvious it was not a pigeon but a hawk. I looked like the sparrowhawk in last nights programme but i remember it as being bigger. With the dogs barking and me trying to cover it with a tea towel it was quite a mad exciting few minutes.
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Yet more wood pigeons! - we have an amorous couple who like to entertain us with their courtship rituals and subsequent mating on a fairly regular basis whilst perched on the five barred gate that leads into our orchard. They have taken over squatting rights in a collared dove's nest in a hawthorn tree and have currently produced offspring. The collared doves bred their first brood back in January.
We reside just outside Chesham in Buckinghamshire.
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Hello All
Saturday 3rd October 2009 at 10.00
I have just cleaned up the droppings from our third brood of swallows in the Church porch at Menheniot. The four young are still around with their parents and I think that this is the latest we have seen them in all the years they have been returning to our village church.
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Last weekend(26 Sep)we cut down a dead and dangerously leaning Hawthorne tree. The next morning, while clearing up, we noticed a baby pigeon on the ground. The poor thing had obviously fallen out of a nest that we had no idea was there. I "rebuilt" the nest from the twigs retrieved from the fallen tree, in another nearby tree and carefully placed the pigeon in it. I fastened lots of leafy branches around it to give it some protection allowing space for Mum to feed it. A week later and it is still in the "nest", looking bigger and hissing if I go too close. Obviously it is being fed and looked after, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it makes it. It is so windy here today - I am hopinig that it doesn't fall out again!
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We have had collared doves nesting in our garden, it has been great to watch as the nest has been clearly visible from a first floor window. Two chicks have left the nest today (3rd October)
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We have house martin chicks in a nest three feet from our bedroom window. We will try again to get a photo as we didn't have much success last weekend. They have been nesting in the same place for ten years, but this year we have only had one nest occupied instead of four. Last summer a greater spotted woodpecker pecked down a nest and killed the chicks inside. We live in Ilminster Somerset bordering on Farmland
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At Carding Mill Valley in Shropshire last Sunday we saw swallows still in the nest and being fed by parents at 4 nests. I am guessing they would have fledged by now as their plumage had come through.Would they make it on the migration?
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Hi
We live on the Dorset/Somerset border and have got House Martins feeding their young in a nest above our front door - this must be their third brood this year.
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We have a baby wood pigeon still on a nest and being fed. The same nest last year had two chicks who didn't fledge until the last day of September. Funnily they don't nest there earlier in the year.
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Heartwood Forest
did you know that the new Woodland Trust forest in Sandridge, Herts, Heartwood Forest is having a World Record attempt planting (of trees) on December 5th?
This would be a great occasion to cover on the show or at least plug. The forest is well worth following over the next few years.
Annie Hitch
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we have two house martin chicks in a nest on the house next door to us in exeter. unfortunatly i havnt seen the adult birds in a few days so it could be a harsh ending for these birds.
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We also have seen House martins obviously feeding young in a nest just outside Odihham, Hant's., last weekend and a pair of sparrows doing there best to stop them. Regards, abbeyroadgroup.
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Well, I havn't seen any chicks in a nest but seen juvinille goldfiches begging for food and getting some this morning.
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By the way, I've read in a book that doves and pigeons nest all year round!
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Hi all
Went to Spalding yesterday,in the Springfields shopping area are gardens and ponds, one of the ponds had 2 very young duck chicks swimming there.
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Hi, i work at RUTLAND WATER NATURE RESERVE as a volunteer and last wednesday the 30th of september 5 barn owl chicks were ringed on the reserve also 2 seperate nests were found of stock doves sitting on eggs in barn owl boxes
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House martin chicks still bing fed in the eaves of our house Sandhurst Surrey
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We noticed that our house martins finally left early this week. We live in Speyside and thought this might be a record for northerly martins' nests this late in the year!
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Yes I have seen chicks. A pair of pigeons who nested in one of our trees in early summer returned to the nest in September and after a hurried maintenance period started sitting the nest, with the result that two chicks are now swaying about in the first autumn gale. In the course of their two stays with us they have become quite trusting and survived me building a new dog compound out of force majeure right beneath them
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While pruning fir tree noticed nest with two chick.Later when mother returned it was wood pigeon.That was the 24-09-09,today 3-10-09 the chicks are still going strong and now have feathers.Chirnside Scotland
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On 27 September at Beeleigh Falls near Maldon Essex I saw a pair of pigeons building a nest!
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house martins still feeding chicks in the nest in sleaford lincolnshire, they are on a very busy rail crossing junction on grantham road
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We live in the New Forest and have two collared dove chicks in a tree in our back garden;regularly looked after by parents. One chick has just ventured out on to a branch- hope it can get back ok.
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Always make a note of when I see the first and last swallows. Havent seen one since last saturday (25th sept Graigfechan, Ruthin N.Wales). However, back in 1970, when we lived at Ffynnongroyw on the N.wales coast near Prestatyn, we had swallow chicks still in the nest on the 20th of October. They fledged soon after but obviously I dont know how far they got on their migration. Not very I suspect.
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We have had a ouse martin nest in the apex of our roof since i was a child- this year in late august/early september it collapsed- there were chicks in the nest then and they all died when the nest fell. We didn't think we would see them again this year- but they are back- the nest is even bigger than before and there are new chicks.
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RE: comment above..... we live in Bedfordshire
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Two collared doves just fledged on Sunday in my garden:
here is one being fed. They have since disapearred and there are feathers everywhere :(
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We have both seen and heard a Chiffchaff in our garden in Shropshire today, Saturday 3rd October. We also heard a chiffchaff on Aqualate Estate on Tuesday 27th September.
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I had thought all the swallows at the converted farm buildings where Jack the Horse is kept had left but this week I have noticed one nest which still has young in - they look just about to fledge and parents are doing lots of feeding. We have lots of swallows in the stables each year but usually they have 2 broods and go - is the latests I've seen them in the nest and like other bloggers I'm concerned that they have left it too late! We also have some feral doves which are feeding young.
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a few days ago i was at a friends house when i looked up to under their eaves and saw atleast ten or more house martin nests and atleast half of them still had chicks in!!
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Snainton School (North Yorks) had seven housemartin nests this summer - one nest still had young (at least three) in last week, believed to have fledged last weekend 26/27th Sept.
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We live in the middle of Wales and currently have nuthatches feeding chicks in an old tree.
Visited Cotswold Wildlife Park a few days ago and there is a female mallard with 11 ducklings only a few days old.
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We have at least 12 house martins nest on our house with one still in use. also seen today a family of 6 starlings who first visited in early summer, all still flying around together, and feeding from our birdtable.
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Regarding previous post forgot to say we are in west dorset!!!
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I was at Welney WWT on September 24 and came across a nest in one of the hides. There were four swallow chicks peeping out. The parent birds were flying in every few minutes feeding them. I suppose they will fledge, but will they migrate? I took photos which I will attempt to put on the site
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Hi Autumnwatch!
I don't think the swallows in my barn are still in the nest but they still fly in and out and sit n the beams. They must have been born about springwatch time this year but they still just hang around the barn. Hope this helps your research!
Howe1634
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We are in Devon and there are still chicks being fed in two house martin nests on the house. It is their 3rd brood each this year. The swallows in an outhouse are long gone but to our surprise a wren built a nest over the top and their chicks fledged on 30 September!
What is going on?
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I have noticed that we have had several broods of Goldfinch this year - the young fledglings come to our feeders with the adults. I saw 2 fledglings out at the beginning of term (5th Sept) and one this last week sitting there waiting for the adult to take it up into the tree and feed it. I was most surprised this late in the year. We live in Horsell, Surrey.
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we have a nest of swallows in the stable. Its the second brood and they are about four weeks old. Sally north devon.
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Another answer to your question:
“Have you seen chicks in the nest this week?”
Yes a pair of pigeon fledglings in our wisteria. We have wisteria on the east and south facing walls of our house. This is the third brood this year. We left the nest through the summer and finally removed it, when the second pair of fledglings vacated it, this was about mid August. While I was pruning the creeper and removing the nest, I was being given a very stony stare by a mature pigeon, perched on the gutter. As soon as I had taken my ladder down she (presumably) began to build again, in a part which I had not yet cut back. Fortunately, they are, I think, nearly ready to fly, judging by the size of the previous pair of fledglings before they flew. I hope they make it, before the bad weather hits. We seem to be favoured kindly by the weather, though, near Bournemouth.
Incidentally our Rhododendron is flowering as well.
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We have House Martins with chicks still in the nest and we're close to Alnwick in Northumberland. Just one little family left, all the rest have gone. Where will they be flying to?
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We were about to have a rubina tree felled ( grown far too large for our back garden). The day before the felling, we noticed a nest in the tree with a pidgeon sat on it and we could hear the sound of a chick! Felling cancelled until further notice.
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A pair of our doves have nested in the owl box in our stables - they have one chick about a week old, & another dove in a different box hatched out her chicks in the last 24 hours.
We did have a nest of wrens being fed last New Years Day, but don't know if they survived! This is in West Wales.
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I live near Romsey in Hampshire and I have House Martins nesting on my House. I can hear them feeding there chicks as I am typing this note. One is at the enterence to the nest while the parent or parents are catching insects. I have around 8 nests but I can only see one nest with birds in. Hope this helps your survey guy's.
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I saw 3 tiny PEACOCK CHICKS with the mother at Leeds Castle in Kent last Tuesday.
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We live in East Devon and had a family of housemartins still in the nest last weekend. They flew this week, about Wednesday I think.
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In Bolney, West Sussex, House Martins are feeding chicks under the eaves above my bedroom window. I was aware of the adults repairing an existing nest 3 weeks ago. The chicks were heard on Saturday 26th and they are still feeding today. Hope they make it.
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I live just north of Whitehaven on the west coast of Cumbria and we had a barn owl feeding young well into September.
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I have not seen chi'sw in the nest but i do have a down coverd chick coming on to my feeder.
I also had a young bat fly into my frontroom about 2 mounths ago ,but i do not think it's eco location was working right as it flew into the window and stuned it's self for abit, also i went to gigrig farm for the feeding of the kite's and would higly recomened it.
SPARKLINGKEN
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Just to let you know, we have House Martin chicks (2nd Brood) in the nest in Nairn, way up in the Highlands! They have moved from their original nest and are now housed in a partly broken one 2 doors down! This is probably due to the gales and rain that we have experienced today and the chicks are probably freezing. Must admit that we are rather worried that they are not going to be ready in time to fly South. Regards from a rather concerned Jackie and Angus Smith!!!
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I live in Hockley Essex and have witnessed two occasions of late chicks. Surprised two weeks ago to find part of an egg shell in the garden. But today have seen sparrows in and out of a nest box I only put up on the 17th September, I managed to get a good photograph of one of the sparrows perched on the outside before flying off.
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Two days ago there were up to twenty housemartins flying around our street in S Yorkshire. They seem to have gone now but there are still young birds calling from one of the nests. hope they havn't been left behind.
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We have wood pigeons nesting in an apple tree in the garden.There are 2 young birds.
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yh in woods near my grans house in listerdale woods in rotherham if important
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We haven't had swallows for a few years, but a couple arrived a month or two ago (perhaps August) to repair an old nest. They have produced chicks which are just on the verge of fledging. We live near Somerton in Sout Somerset
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hi,
there is still young in a house martin nest near my home in weymouth, dorset
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We have five Barn Owl chicks in one of our nest boxes in our small copse. Its the second clutch this year. They are between 6 and 16 days old. The two very small chicks may well end up as dinner for the thre older ones. They will be ringed next week by the local BTO ringer. These eggs would have been laid late August early Sept.
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a pair of white doves have been nesting in the gutter just outside the window where i work in fakenham norfolk. after 3 apparently unsuccessful attempts, i noticed today that they were feeding 2 newly hatched chicks.
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hi, today i saw about 1 week old ducklings on the lake near me !!!!
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At my local church there is a nest of swallow chicks. For some reason there is only one chick, but this nest has been used several times this year. All the time we are saying "surely it will be gone next week!" but it doesn't seem to want to leave. The chick seems old enough to fly, but we've never actually seen it flying, and the parents still bring it food. Normally we wouldn't see swallow chick this late - what's going on???!!! This is in south Devon.
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hi gang,
yesterday afternoon i walked down to our local park where there is a large fishing pond and to my surprise saw two egyptian geese with 7 maybe two day old chicks I've taken a picture to show my wife as i found it quite unbelievable, is this common or a bit of a freak occurrence?
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We have at least two sets of Song Thrush chicks nesting in a derelict byre.
The nests are in gaps between the stone walls.
I think they'll be lucky to survive! We are in the West Mainland of Orkney.
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HI
just watching the program and saw your item about the late chicks .
Last weekend i treated the grass in the front garden and saw a whit egg at the foot of our tree . I looked up and there was a collared dove sitting on eggs - i thought was odd as it was late september.
More inmportantly this now brings the tally of nests in our gardens to 7 in total - we have a Robin , wren , house sparrow ,dove in front garden , pidgeon at the very back of the garden . blackbird and great tits.
We have also had for the first time a group of collared doves 8-10 number feeding in the garden - we have the usual starlings but i thought this was odd please let me know.
Its a great way to relax before work - to chill with a coffee watching out of the rear patio and seeing up to 20 birds in the garden within space of 15mins from maybe 10 species .
We have 3 boys 8,6,5 and they are fascinated by it all .
Great Program
Regards
John
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Sparrow Hawks love them or hate them. One of this years fledgling Barn Owls was taken by one at about 8pm during August. By the time we got to the field edge all that was left was a pile of feathers and one bright yellow tallon. Leechpool, South Wales.
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we have house martins still being fed near altarnun in cornwall and i have taken photos this week. am shocked that theyy are still feeding and waiting to see when they start flying
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I live in the west country in a town and we have had more sparrows this year than I can ever remember, to top it all we have new babies who have clearly just learnt to fly visiting our garden and watching their parents bath in the pound, its such a lovely sight. warms the heart and odd given we are in October now!
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Hello there
We still have young House Martins in the nest above our bedroom window.
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Hello there,
I live on the Isle of Arran in the west of Scotland. There are 2 adult swallows still feeding young in the nest. I think it is about there 3rd brood.
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I have grey doves nesting behind my Sky satellite dish. They have done this for several years without impeding my tv reception, kind of them. Earlier this year they raised successfully a brood of two chicks, and recently I noticed they sat on their nest again and I now have another two fully fledged chicks, still being fed by their parent(s), which must be ready to fly the nest soon.
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HI I LIVE IN DONCASTER ,SOUTH YORKSHIRE, AND WE HAVE HOUSE MARTINS ,WITH YOUNG IN THE NEST NEAR OUR HOME ,I THINK THEY WILL BE LEAVING SOON AS THEY LOOK THE SAME SIZE AS THE ADULTS.
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House martins still with young in the nest Standon Staffordshire
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Bishopton Scotland.
I haven't seen chicks in their nest but I thought the following might be of interest. On the morning of 19th September I heard a lot of chirping going on in our cherry tree and soon noticed a baby Goldfinch on our nyjer seed feeder begging its parent for food. It had probably only recently fledged. I took some pictures as I thought this was quite unusual. Over the next few days it learned to feed on its own and now comes regularly by itself. It is definitely an only chick.
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We have many swallows nesting in our barn every year. As we are 1400ft above sea level they leave us quite early. In fact, we realised they had upped and left last Saturday (26 Sept). We heard cries and discovered an abandoned nest with 3 youngsters left behind! Unfortunately, we were too late to save one but we have taken the other two (nest as well!) indoors as it is very cold at night now and they are thriving on mealworms. Luckily, they are well grown but they will not be able to follow the others on migration. We are not sure what happens when they decide they want to fly! Taking each day as it comes. If there are so many, is anyone planning a rescue mission to fly these late fledglings out to Africa once they are ready?!!! Could I take them myself, I wonder?
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Where I live, south Shropshire, I have had a late swallow brood in my stable. The last one finally left the nest completely yesterday morning I think, but a week ago there were 5 large young swallows, still being fed despite them being able to fly. They have left one by one and I was beginning to think I would be left with one swallow for the winter but I was glad to see it had left yesterday. I think 2nd October has to be the latest I've seen them in the nest here.
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just watched a jackdaw nest building,and have seen 2 woodpidgeon nests with chicks today,hope they are ok after the gales today.i live in glasgow.
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We have two of the ugliest pigeon chicks precariously balanced on our wisteria in Hampshire, Basingstoke area
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We have been watching House Martins on our house raising what we think is the 3rd brood. Last weekend I counted over 30 circling round and round coming up to the nest and landing on the wall. They seemed to be enocouraging the chicks to fly. We saw 3 emerge for the first flight, we caught all this on video. Either they returned to the nest or there were more to fledge as there are still chicks popping their heads out. Most of the Martins seem to have gone now after a mass exodus. Will these chicks get left behind by their parents?
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Near Crawley, West Sussex, we currently have a nest in our Sweet Chestnut tree containg a Wood Pigeon chick.
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Whilst walking down my local high street this morning, I found the remains of what I suspect is Pigeon egg on the ground under a tree.
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Hello
Just a quick note to let you know that here in Ilkley, West Yorkshire we still have House Martin Chicks in a nest under the Eaves.The nest has been full of activity since early Spring.
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until today there was a brood of house martin chicks in their nest under the eaves of our house, the second brood raised by the parent birds this year.
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sorry, I omitted to say the house martins were in Mid Devon.
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Suprised to see a moorhen chick (very new) bobbing beside parent in pond in Edinburgh's Botanical Gardens this past week. From cheeping noises in undergrowth it appears there was more than one.
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We saw a nest of swallow chicks being fed at Fountains Abbey on Sunday 27 September 2009. They are in the eves of the porch as you enter the grounds of the visitor centre.
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I was really surprised when the house martins started building a nest in the gable end of the house and now there are chicks
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we have a third brood of house martin chicks in the nest on our house,in north yorkshire.parents busily feeding them,with abundance of food in the recent good weather.
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i live in lincolnshire near a lake and we have e mallard nesting in a flower box at the moment the nest has seven eggs in it this is the third lot of eggs
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I have a nest of house martins , the parents are still feeding the young today. It seems very late as most of the other swallows and house martins have left.
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It wasn't till the high winds yesterday blew most of the leaves off our cherry tree that we realised wood pigeons had built a nest there. We were really surprised to see there was a single nestling. It's covered in down at the moment so quite young still.
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I've heard the birdsong in my garden close to Manchester and in the past week I've found a small newt and baby frog. This is a little late surely?
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Absolutely!
Just at the start of the week a pair of wood pigeons fledged from a nest in my rose bush, and about two days later I found a new nest on my walk to school in a bush with no leaves on it, I've been watching and I'm as certain as I can be without disturbing the mother that she's on eggs.
And I also found a very young chick dead underneath a bush (a morbid but accurate way of knowing there was a nest), it was a few days dead by the time I found it so I wasn't too keen on going to investigate closer, but judging by the yellow down and the fact it was a big kinda chick, it was another wood pigeon.
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I live on the Cambridgshire/Bedfordshire borders, on Wednesday 3 swallow chicks fledged from their nest. This is the third brood hatched this year. So far all is well and they are flying around our barn and the parents are still feeding them.
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We have had fledged goldfinch chicks being fed by parents on the feeders in our garden within the last week. It just struck me as being quite a late batch.Bollngton Cheshire.
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Hi,
I watched Your program on Saturday (3rd Oct) evening and noted the piece about late chicks. I live in Walsall town and we seem to have had a constant supply, from the same nests, of young Collared Doves.
I think we will be having more as on Friday i spotted a pair of Doves Mateing.
I once replied to an RSPB survey of where all the small birds had gone so perhaps Nature is replenishing the birds. I hope.
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We have a nest containing two wood pigeon chicks in our garden. They are 1 - 2 weeks old.
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In our coastal garden in N.W.Wales we still have very young Goldfinches and Sparrows being fed by their parents. It seems to have been a very good year for all the garden birds, but I'm sure the death rate will also be very high!
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I have a wood pigeon's nest in the pyracantha next to my bedroom window. It is easy to see that they are on their 3rd brood, just one chick that hatched Tues or Weds, 29 or 30/9. At least she's stopped at one this time - we really do have enough pigeons!!
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we have still got house martins feeding their young in the nest Is this normal for them to be still feeding young at this time of year? As they have left their breading so late will they servive the journy south?
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I had a House martin nest feeding up until the 1st when the youngsters Fledged successfully! Now feeding and probably building enough fat up to make the long journey south to ...(Who knows where.
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We've still got house martins flitting in and out of their nest.
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We don't have any chicks in the nest; however we do have a family of 2 parents and 5 fledged goldfinch chicks. We are on the North Yorkshire coast.
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Moorhen sitting on eggs at Etherow Country Park near Stockport on 1/10/2009. redMeldrew1
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we still have one pair of house martins still feeding young 4/10/09the other ten pairs left three weeks ago.swallows left four weeks ago,swifts left around end of august.
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When i was in Mull in the middle of September I saw some swallows in a nest being fed by their parents. They looked quite well grown and nearly ready to fledge.
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As other people have been saying we also have house martins still feeding their chicks
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Our House Martins have raised two broods this year and were still in the nest at the end of September. No sign of them this weekend so presume they have fledged.
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On Sunday 23rd.September 2009 we saw baby swallows leaving the nest built in the eaves of our house in Essex
This was the second brood from this nest
The long tail tits have appeared on the bird table this week after their summer break
I wonder where they have been?
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Went for a walk around our local reservoir yesterday and saw tiny baby great crested grebes only a few days old
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Sunday 4th October 19:00
We have still got House-Martins nesting on our house here in Meden Vale Nottinghamshire. This is their second brood and they are looking fine and very active. They nest here on our house every year and some surrounding houses.
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Sunday 4th October 19:00 joewaterfall
We have still got House-Martins nesting on our house here in Meden Vale Nottinghamshire. This is their second brood and they are looking fine and very active. They nest here on our house every year and some surrounding houses.
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WE have not seen chicks in the nest but we have swallows nesting high up in the eaves, too high to see, but we are suffering with very messy cars so we can only presume there are chicks in the nest.
We collar necked have just left the nest in our garden This is the second lot this year. In Buckinghamshire.
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Three weeks ago we were on holiday in Southern Ireland and whilst visiting the National Heritage centre at wexford we found swallows nesting and still feeding their young in one of the pre-historic huts.
We followed this with a week in wales and went to a headland called Martin's Haven were we saw Chuff's (is that the right spelling) and also whilst there waves of what I believe were Canadian Geese started to come in from the west and land in a field nearby. They were all grazing in the fields. By the time we left there must have been 100 to 150. Can you tell us does this make sense and can you tell us about the migration paterns. We have I believe to be canadian geese at our local pond and they have been here all summer and had two young.
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If you are still keeping a map of cuckoo sightings (Springwatch 2009) we go to the Isles of Scilly every year about May time and we always hear a cuckoo on St. Agnes one of the smaller inhabited islands.
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My wife & i did see house martin chicks in the nest last friday 2nd Oct,we went today (Sun 4th )to see if they were still there , they were no longer in the nest but were flying around the area which is in the centre of Market Harborough Leicestershire. Rodger & Sheila Lambert.
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You mentioned late breeding birds in your last programme. As a keen amateur photographer I have been photographing urban wildlife in my home town of Hull and I have been watching several breeding pair of wood pigeons. I can remember a time would you rarely saw them in the city! They seem to breed all year round in the city. Would they do this in the wild? Today, Sunday Oct 4th, I photographed a pair with two youngsters in the nest! I also saw four or five house martins nesting under a local footbridge.
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You mentioned late breeding birds in your last programme. As a keen amateur photographer I have been photographing urban wildlife in my home town of Hull and I have been watching several breeding pair of wood pigeons. I can remember a time when you rarely saw wood pigeons in the city! They seem to breed all year round in the city. Would they do this in the wild? Today, Sunday Oct 4th, I photographed a pair with two youngsters in the nest! I also saw four or five house martins flying around their nesting site under a footbridge.
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Hello
I have a nest of jays still looking after 4 chicks they are nearly ready to leave the nest as they are starting to flex there wings, very late for my local woodland, there has also been a sharp rise in tawny owls as the woodland is like an owl orchestra at night, really special to hear so many owls in one place
chris beever
lancashire
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4 House Martins still flying over houses on our housing estate (Linslade, Bedfordsire) with two occasionally flying up into eave of house. Two well developed young seen popping their heads out so hopefully will be off soon.
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We have a third brood of House Martins in a nest under the eaves of our house. They've been a wonderful sight for months now.
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Torbay S.Devon
We still have House Martins chich's in the nest but they are very close to leaving the by the looks of them hope they make it alright.
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hi, i live right on the far tip of western cornwall. we always have 2 - 3 families of swallows sharing the old pony block at the stables where i keep my horse, living in perfect harmony with us horsey humans who are constantly wandering around underneath them. The birds left for migration about 2 weeks ago, all except a family with 4, now fledgling chicks. So now we all sit drinking our tea with the chicks in the eaves just above us and we are wondrin all the time how are those little chicks gonna get to africa or where ever they go. We have got swarms of lovely flies, could this be the reason for lateness!
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Went to investigate the commotion in our large, still heavily foliaged, magnolia tree and discovered a collared dove defending a single chick against a magpie attack. In vain as the magpie managed to savage the chick which was about two days old. All that was left after the onslaught was two large blood spots and part of a wing on the flagstones beneath the tree. I didn't realise that magpies would take live chicks although I do know that they will take eggs - and it is particularly late in the year for doves to be raising chicks ! This happened on Saturday, October 3 at about 11:30.
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I thought I posted this yesterday...a pair of black swans are nesting above the weir adjacent to Caversham Lock, Reading
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House martins nest on our house every year here on the southern slopes of the Mendips. This year we have had 3 broods and the last ones are still in the nest 5-10-09 this is very late, and there does not seem to be other house martins about. Hope they find their way south.
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Sea swallows?
Yes, last week I have seen 3 barn swallow chicks in the nest. Not in an area with lots of mud and straw but under the roof of the recovery pool where sick seal are being looked after. This pair of swallows seem to prefer an environment of dunes, seawater and fish: sea swallows?
Every year they nest at Ecomare, a seal sanctuary on the isle of Texel (The Netherlands) at the border of the North Sea and Wadden Sea.
The chicks just left the nest a few days ago and are still being fed by their parents, who refuse to leave for a warmer place.
An other survey near Texel: last week a Leatherback turtle was seen swimming around Texel. Very rare for this area! But more strange is that a week before, a dead one was found on a beach nearby!
Groeten, Christine Koersen.
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I have a big oak tree in my garden and ive noticed a bird building a nest over the last two weeks it has been sat on it for about a week or so not sure what bird it is but i think its some kind of dove do doves nest this time of year?.I don't think there,s any chicks yet she hasn't left the nest for food the only sad thing is the partner was found dead on the floor so its doing it alone will the chicks survive with one parent ?. I live in Tamworth Staffordshire and ive never noticed this before.
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We have bluetits nesting in 1 of the boxes we put up, have been there for a couple of weeks now. We are in Stourbridge West Midlands.
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Moorhen, Coot and Great Crested Grebe on Langold Lake in Nottinghamshire have young chicks grebe small humbugs about 3 weeks old?
Is this just another sign of Global Warming or this years' Indian Summer?
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At start of last week I found a dead chick in the garden, under where the Starlings have been nesting. It was about 2 - 4 days old. I haven't seen any fledglings in the garden since late July, but will keep an eye out. I'd also note it's been a very 'good year' for Starlings and House Sparrows in my neighbourhood. The Sparrow population has held up well here for years, but this year there are a lot more around. And the same goes for Blue, Coal and Great Tits, usually just occasional visitors to the feeders but now here in numbers every day.
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Although they were not in the nest we observed three baby swallows still attended and presumably still being fed by their mother at Berwick on tweed on Monday 21st September
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Hi, we have Wood pigeons nesting in our tall evergreen hedge in the garden. I can hear the young calling and the adults are going in and out on a regular basis
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Reading all the comments, surely it's time farmers were stopped from cutting hedges before the end of September now? Round here they start bang on 1st August (one farmer used to start early June but didn't do that this year, thankfully) and I'm sure there must still be birds nesting in some hedgerows after 1st August.
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Hi there,
Last week I saw a pair of swans on the River Spey with 2 babies just a few weeks old. They appeared on the Spey at Fochabers, North East Scotland after the recent floods so not very old. There possibly could have been more than the 2. There is usually a nest on a back water just below the bridge. We also have blossom on our male and female holly trees and the winter jasmine is already flowering???? It's been very warm here around 18-20+'during the day up until this weekend. We are very fortunate in Moray.
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We have 2 House Martins not yet fledged although should do soon. "Our" martins do tend to stay until the end of October. We are near Wantage, Oxfordshire
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We have recently seen several very young goldfinches on our seed-feeders; quite unusual in the Northern wastes of Rochdale at this time of year.
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Walking around my local pond in Cheltenham, I was surprised to see a female Mallard duck with nine small ducklings, obviously not that old. I was shocked to see ducklings so young this late in the year.
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We have a pair of wood pigeons nesting in the wisteria at the front of our cottage in Hampshire. This will be their second brood but the two eggs haven't hatched yet and given the long fledging process for pigeons they will be leaaving the nest about 1st november. Can they survive??
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Hi, my mum who lives in Twyford, Berkshire has 2 collared doves who fledged the Thursday before you went on air. They haven't gone far and are so sweet.
Here in Bucks, our sparrows suddenly appeared one morning 2 weeks ago with one chick to feed. A pair of piegons are busy flying in and out of a tree with twigs so guess they are up to it again. If it is the same pair that is the 3rd time this year.
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We have had our regular swallow families back this year-they nest in our coalsheds- so we have to leave the doors open and cover the coal with old sheets( for obvious reasons!) They arrived earlier and have had 4 broods- most of which have fledged successfully and gone on their way. We still have 2 young swallows left- no longer on their nest and feeding themselves( adults fed them until last week. As everyone else we were worried that these are still around this late but hope they make it. We live in South Lincolnshire
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Juvenile House Martins (lighter brown and slightly flecked flanks)
flying with adults over
Crondon Park Golf course, Essex, CM4 9DP
5th October
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We had a very large number of house martins this year nesting in several nests above the bedroom window. The majority of them left quite a few weeks ago, but a few remained and the chicks could be seen stretching their wings out of the nest. They finally all left 2 weeks ago.
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We have house martins still in their nest under the eaves of our house, still chirruping away. Mayrich, East Sussex
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West Nottingham-swallow chicks have just flown from their nest-last chicks of this year !
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We have starlings nesting under the eaves of our house in the Wirral.We have heard the chicks and seen the adult bird taking food to the nest. We have not noticed these birds nesting so late in previous years.
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We've recently seen a couple of very scruffy looking green finches on our bird feeder, today they brought what looks like their fledgelings with them. No wonder they looked so tired!
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At this moment our son amd daughter-in-law who live in Olney have a Dove nesting in a wisteria right next to their back door, with 2 chicks in. Also we were in Northumberland mid-September visiting Vindolanda Roman Fortand saw house martins with a nest of chicks on the ground floor of a reproduced roman tower.
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Hi on to our fourth brood of Collared Doves the last eggs where laid on the 3rd September and the chicks are now preparing to fledge hope they survive ok with the high winds and rain.
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we have in one of our trees a pair of collard doves nesting
with two chicks,they are feeding them and seam quite content.
other birds ie magpies and crows try to get to the nest,but the doves at the moment keep them away.
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nimmos wrote.
we have in one of our trees a pair of collard doves nesting,
with two chicks, they are feeding them and seam quite content.
other birds ie magpies and crows try to get to the nest,but the doves
at the moment keep them away,hope their be ok.
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We had a really blustery day up here in Dundee last Saturday, while I was driving along the car in-front of me did an emergency stop, and when he began to move again I could see that a woodpigeon or young rock dove (I couldn't 100% tell as it still had a lot of baby-down) had been blown into the middle of the road and was trying to flap it's way out of the on-coming traffic.
We pulled over and picked the little one up, it was definately a youngster as it still had woolly down on it's back and on some of the wings.
I wasn't sure what to do with it, the winds really were quite bad so there would have been no way it could have gotten back into a tree and stayed there for any length of time, so we went into a grove of trees beside where it was on the road and popped it down on the ground making sure it had plenty of cover to hide it away from any cats that were prowling about.
It was quite a surprise to see a fledgling at the start of October, this must be the worst time of year to try fend for itself.
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Over the weekend we had sets of young sparrows feeding from their parents first on the fence then in the trees and on the ground. We counted 10 fledglings. Amazing for October. Swallows also fed their 3 young in the house eaves opposite. Chester/Welsh border
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HI. We have just been to the RSPB site at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire.. And amazingly there are some Gannet chicks, still part covered in down and others that are just about ready to Fledge!!! "Amazing"!!!
Ian Temple
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Hi, for obvious reasons I won't say where exactly these are but I'm in the West Midlands and we currently have 4 Barn Owl chicks in one of our Owl Boxes!
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Hi, there are House Martins nesting on Wennington Road in Rainham in Essex.
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On our visit to Barton Farm in Bradford-on-Avon at the weekend we were very surprised to see a house martin feeding two (maybe more?) chicks in a nest on one of the buildings near the old tithebarn. Very few other martins flying around so are the chicks likely to survive?
At home in Newton Ferrers in Devon, we have two young fledgling goldfinches being fed and I've just seen a very newly fledged goldcrest being fed in our neighbour's larch.
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lttlechurch oops sorry forgot to say that we are in west wiltshireon4octaboutonepairofhousemartinsstillfeeding.theyhavenowleft77oct
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REgarding chicks still in the nest.
We have two pairs of Moorhens nesting on a local canal in Wedenesburu West Midlands.
The chick must only be about two weeks old are are still very dependent on there parents.
Would they survive a frost.
REgards
Steve Huggins
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we had 2 wood pigeon chicks blown out of the nest in this weekends winds.
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I live in a small village in West Oxfordshire and I still have baby Housemartins in the nest attached to the house.
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Got 2 lovely young stock doves almost ready to go in an owl box stuck up a sycamore tree in Lower Dunsforth, North yorks - no owls though!!
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Not been able to paint one section of house this year. Collared doves have brought up three broods and are sitting on their fourth brood now. Two each time. The nest is now held together with their muck, apart from what has dropped on to patio. Parent seems quite happy for us to open upstairs window and have a look at them just two feet away. Have photo but cannot see how to send it.
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We still have Swallows and House Martins here in North Devon, i have never seen them here this late before.
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Two collar dove eggs hatched today in Kent.
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Not seen chicks in the nest but we still have Goldfinches feeding their young in our garden in Basingstoke
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many chicks on the nest, whilst on holiday in scotland visiting caerlaverlock castle dumfries a couple of weeks ago, we watched many house martins feeding young chicks on the nest.
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Not quite in the nest, but we saw a young Moorhen last weekend in Norfolk. Still covered in downy feathers
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We've had great tits checking out our nest box. there's nothing in the nestbox as yet, but two great tits keep going in and out of it, like they're getting a nest ready.
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HI everyone at autumnwatch.We too have had late housemartin chicks it was a second brood.There were two chicks in the nest until last Sunday,and have now fledged.Is this unusual to be so late?I am in the Midlands.
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We live in Chelmsford and have a family of starlings nesting in our roof at the moment. There are definitely babies in there - we can hear them making a racket when mum/dad comes to feed them. This is their second brood this year.
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Just to say we enjoyed last week's format, and to say that we still had a nest with House Martin chicks being fed until yesterday 7/10/09.As far as we can see, they've gone today, a really fine autumn flying day!
We live at Thorpe Bassett,North Yorkshire; don't think we've had one so late before.
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Hi. I have a nest of House Martins just over my bedroom window which has been going good guns all summer. I was worried when I could still hear occupation on Monday (in case one of the chicks was caught in the nest, as happened last year when a chick got caught up in string and died). I considered having a quick peep but panic over - they fledged on Tuesday! Phew! Silence now reigns and I miss their cheery warbling.
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Forgot to mention, I live on Loch Lomondside so we are quite far north for such late youngsters.
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Collared Doves nesting: We have two fluffy chicks in our pear tree. I think they had eggs in a nest in a tall bush a while ago and I heard magpies having a go at them and found egg shell on the ground. We have a tiny garden but have had lots of chicks this year (sparrows and blackbirds) despite my two little boys racing around like mad things, sometimes just a couple of feet away! The Sparrow's nest was so low and so near to the slide I had to keep the children out of the way for a bit. If they choose such a noisy place to nest, can I assume they don't mind? They seem to have been successful broods- they didn't stop feeding the chicks and just flew over the heads of the children!
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Hi
We live in East Devon and my mother in laws house (Next Door) has House Martins nesting and still had chicks in up until yesterday, not checked today but has been fantastic weather so may well have gone today.
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Hi. Our House Martins left their nests earlier this year in mid September, whereas last year they left their nests in early October. We had several pairs of Swallows breeding last year in our garages and none this year.
On the plus side we had a pair of Little Grebes building a nest in September in the middle of the river running past our house. They have been on the nest for about 20 days and the first young fledged yesterday on the 7th October.
We live in Kent.
Regards Chris
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We have a collared dove baby which was blown out of its nest in a storm, the night before last. The mother is around but is not feeding it. Having survived all day, it is now very limp and struggling. Does anyone know what we can feed it with?
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Dear frenchpotager
Contact your nearest wildlife rescue centre or wildlife hospital without delay for guidance. If you don't know who they are try the yellow pages under wildlife (that's how I found mine!). Best wishes.
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I saw a young wood pigeon on the ground on 7 October. I know they were building a nest in the tree above it in September, but don't know if this pigeon came from there. I have heard that pigeons will nest virtually all year round, but don't know if that is true.
Cath
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I saw a Ciffchaff, with several bluetits, in my woodland garden in West Sussex,on a climbing rose, late last week and again early this week, probably on Friday 2nd and Tuesday 6th October.
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i have just seen a mallard with 4 new baby ducklings about 1 day old in my garden
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A couple of weeks ago we had a pair of blue tits investigating our nest box and couldn't work out why!! Now we know. Also we have had a family of freshly fledged gold finches visiting the garden yesterday. Unbelievable at this time of year!
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Hi,
Have not actually seen nesting chicks, but have had newly fledged Goldfinches and their parents at our Nyjer feeders this week. Have also recently seen very young Blackbirds in the garden.
Mike, Emneth, Norfolk.
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Hi,
I live in a rural part of West Yorkshire and on Tuesday morning I saw a very newly fledged Yellowhammer.
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Bullfinch chicks being fed in South Yorkshirelate September.
New mallard chicks Derbyshire 4th Ocober.
In November last year I was having a tree lopped and the 'fellers' found a wood pigeon on its nest, with eggs. They reckoned wood pigeons nest all the year round but the eggs don't always develop. (South Yorkshire.)
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The house Martins are still feeding the young on the nest in the High Peak Derbyshire. 7th October 09
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Heard 2 chiffchaffs calling this morning 9 October, have hard them calling all week. Live near Brighton
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We have in our garden a family of baby squirrels,that like to come down when the Magpies have flown off. Some very young blue-tits who have been nesting in our dovecote. Also loads of young sparrows in our front tree, who are still being fed and are very noisy.
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A second (possibly third as first brood died/killed) of swallows has only just fleged last weekend, but not left yet. Mold, N. Wales
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saw a flock of swallows and housemartins go over my house yesterday 9.1.09 at approx 6pm pillowell area forest of dean was a lovely sight wish i was going with them is this late for them?
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We had a second brood of housemartins in West Sussex on the south Downs which fledged on Monday or Tuesday 5/6 October
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my last comment I have a nest box for blue tits i thought it was empty went to tidy it for spring as i do every year and there were EGGS in there i was a bit concered so i opened the nest box and the eggs were still there something was not right so i touched on and stone cold i knew the eggs were dead so i closed the nest box
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Had a 1917 food for free cook book in case Britain was invaded. It had recipes for badger ham, hedgehogs, dormice and various other flora and fauna. The one for squirrels suggested that there taste depended on what the fed upon, different nuts etc. We didn't try squirrels but did try green catapillars soaked overnight in clean water then cooked in butter and herbs then wrapped in lettuce leaves. Would not recommend this.
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Seen on a farmers pond in Oxfordshire this week, two tiny bundles of black fluff. Moorhen chicks that can only have hatched within three or four days.
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Today 10oct there are two swallows nests in the eaves of my neighbours house.Both have young after two previous hatchings. We live in north west Essex. The parents are obviously able to catch plenty of food at present as they are constantly in and out of the nests feeding the young. In fact around midday today there were at least twenty swallows in the air catching a surfeit of ladybirds. As with other bloggers we are concerned that they may be too late to get fully fledged and strong enough to migrate. We have already had one frost in this area, with another forecast. This will probably have an effect on the insect food supply for these poor hard working birds.
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hi
i watched the show on friday and heard about the chiff chaff singing so late well i hadn't noticed them but ive got a nest of 3 eggs in my conifer belonging to the chiff chaffs. And another female is building a new nest! will the chicks survive?
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There are collared doves nesting in a tree in the middle of my nan's garden in Ramsey, Cambs. When we visited last weekend (3/4 Oct) the doves were taking turns to sit very tight on the nest in strong winds. Since then my nan has seen one, or perhaps two, little heads popping up - they've hatched! Not sure what its/their chances are. This is apparently the doves' fourth (!) go this year; in total at least 3 chicks have fledged successfully and one other sadly flew into a window. I know it's not really a good idea to photograph/video nesting birds but I have still photos and video of the doves nesting, but not of the chicks. They were quite unperturbed by me being in the garden.
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Spotted a lone martin feeding on flies at Clachamish, North Skye Sunday 11th Oct. Our regular families have not been seen for 10-14days.
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house martin feeding three chicks in pelton chester-le-street county durham left the nest andd have been flying around as from monday the 12th
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My parents had young swallows leaving a nest in their shed way up north here in Cumbria at the start of the month. Certainly the latest brood we've ever seen.
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We have 2 collared dove chicks in a nest in our garden in Devon about 6 miles from Exeter. They would seem to be close to fledging
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While walking my dog along the river at London Colney in Herts today saw a mallard with nine duckling (eight of which are yellow!). They are only a couple of days old at the most.
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Re Comment 311. - I mistakenly claimed to have 2 collared doves in the nest. What I should have said is 2 woodpidgeons!
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In addition to the 2 woodpidgeons above (still not fledged) two days ago we had yet another young one arrive in the garden. The new arrival seemed to only have the ability to fly about a metre at a time and seemed unsteady on its feet. It appeared to be very weak but wouldn't (or couldn't) take any food and after a couple of hours died. We wondered if it had fallen from the nest possibly as a result of tree-felling going on nearby.
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I have seen a number of baby pigeons around, they still have there yellow feathers and the adults are feeding them.
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There has been a nest box on a conifer tree in my garden producing chicks for the past ten years or so. this week I heard a tapping sound and found a Greater Spotted Woodpecker enlarging the entrance hole, which has wrecked it.Why would he do this ? I am an ex ringer.
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A family a house martins fledged a week and 3 days ago from Bussage, near Stroud.
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It's Somerset on the 17th of October, a fine morning and a nest of blue tits has just fledged and are taking their first faltering flights around the garden. What hopes of them surviving the winter?
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I live in ramsgate Kent and on wednesday afternoon and thursday afternoon I saw a Green Woodpecker in the tree outside my bedroom window, I didn't think they came down this far south, it was a beautiful sight and i was even more pleased when it came back again on thursday
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We live in Warwickshire and have a wood pigeon nest in one of our trees. I can see 2 chicks in there today who seem to be growing well. We couldn't believe it when the parents started refurbishing the nest so late in the year AND only days after the previous brood had flown the nest!
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We have been to Blythe Valley Country Walk this afternoon in Solihull, West Midlands and have seen a Coot with chicks on the pond!!
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At Swiss Gardens Old Warden today I saw a duck with five small fluffy little ducklings.Cute as can be having a toddle in the autumn sunshine.As this is late October is this usual,to have a brood so late in the year.
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I went to my sons house on sunday 18/10/09 and spotted a wood pigeon sitting on her nest with two chicks under her.
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I think I saw 2 ducklings on the pond in St James Park in London last week. (I tried to take pics but only had rubbish phone camera!)
Not sure of the species of duck: an adult nearby was small, black duck with blue eyes (saw one at the Barnes WWT but can't recall name).
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We have two collared dove chicks - both quite large and almost fledged with at least one attentive parent. Problem is that one of them kept landing on the lawn and sitting there for the last four days!!! We put back up high half a dozen times a day but in the end took it down to Beaver World in Tatsfield, Kent which is primarily for reptiles but get all sorts of wildlife including birds.
We are sure that a cat would have got it sooner or later as it just sat there and was easily picked up. What to do - sibling is in the tree with parent so should it be OK?
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I have mealy worms, sunflower seeds, niger seeds, peanuts and fat balls scattered all around my garden but no birds. Just a few yards away a neighbour has goldfinch, greenfinch, coaltits, longtail tits, blue tits as well as the sparrow. What am I doing wrong? The birds (mostly starlings) were here in the Summer
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I live in clydebank, scotland. Have been disturbed at night by a wailing from the roof. A baby seagull. There are loads of seagulls here, we are near the river clyde which opens into the firth of clyde at gourock - about 16 miles away.
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Not seen any chicks BUT did see three (posibly) Swallows on Wednesday.
I was driving at the time so, being the safe driver that I am, could not take my eyes off the road long enough to confirm whether Swallows or House-Martens (or, indeed, Sand Marten). However, The brief glimpse of them in flight pulls me more toward Swallow.
Haven't seen any on the Island for at least 3 weeks, and I travel it extensively being an Island-wide gardener, So I imagine they're just "passing through" trying to catch up with their long gone cousins who are probably basking in the sunshine of the Southern Hemisphere by now.
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I saw a Jackdaw feeding a fledgling a few days ago:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2577/4064012826_44cf93b6e5_b.jpg
Also I saw Woodpigeons with "triplets" quite newly fledged.
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Kingfishers
I have a boat on the Broads and the F/male kingfisher certainly has a red bottom part to her beak.
I have a lot of kingfisher photographs on my web at photographs-r-us.co.uk under the Wildlife section.
I have been photographing them for a number of years now.
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there is a greate tit taking food in to my dovecte that my hubby made out of an old ceder tree that we cut down It has lots of small nesting holes for birds and several nested there this summer and had young fledge from it.
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Hi all, having traveled the byeways of Hertfordshire for the last 40 years or so, i have seen some amazing things, but i was amazed to see 3 pheasants wandering in a field feeding, nothing unusual, two cocks and the other one was an albino, a first for me, out came the camera, just an ordinary nikon 5.1 pixel, got five pics, but as they were about 200 yds away i have finished up with two reddy black dots and a white one, If i am able to expand the pics to quite a size will i be able to see the birds properly?
regards Bernard
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Whilst visiting Bourton on the Water in the Cotswolds on friday 6th we saw a female Mallard with three chicks, has anyone else seen ducklings anywhere?
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Dorset Goldcrests. You say tonight 13 November on autumnwatch programme goldcrests stuck in scandinavia. I saw a goldcrest on 22 October feeding in Yew trees outside bedroom window and saw again 12 November same place. Weather bad tonight but my goldcrests home and wet.
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The request made in early October for information on fledglings has certainly generated a lot of interest. In the past week or so there have been a pair of nuthatches visiting one of our nut feeders on a regular basis. Their behaviour suggests they have young to feed. They each make 6 or 7 visits when they have a few pecks at the nuts and fly off always in the same direction then they finally return and feed themselves.
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Two days ago my wife called me out to an apple tree outside our house in Hertfordshire, where we both heard what sounded definitely like chicks in a nest. The tree is covered in ivy so we couldn't see anything but have kept an eye out for birds visiting both the nest and our nearby bird feeder. We have had blackbirds nesting this year but haven't seen them for a while. However we did see what looked like either a willow or marsh tit (We usually have coal tits but this one didn't have the white nape)and this bird was giving alarm calls so could be protecting a nest?
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Just seen a young swallow in East Coker near Yeovil. 28th November. Climate Change anyone?
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