A blackbird is nesting on eggs in a diy store due to close on Monday.
Staff at the Focus diy store in Weston Favell are protecting the mum’ s nest in the hope the eggs will hatch in the next few days.
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Nesting bird complicates Focus closure in 4 days time?
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Baby blackbirds: the sequel
Well, first trauma was coming out to find only one of the two birds in the nest.
Did he fall or was he pushed? The remaining chick waits for extra food
Jumping to conclusions, one had clearly pushed the other out, which was cheeping pitifully in the undergrowth beneath. The kids were sent indoors before they started foraging.
The mum and dad blackbirds were still around, bringing food to the remaining (guilty) chick. We left them, hoping somehow the other ‘loose’ one would be found by its parents.
A couple of hours later, as I was putting away stuff in the shed, I heard a rustling sound under the wheelbarrow, and the smaller chick hopped out, a long way from the shelter of the ferns where it had been earlier. It was exposed, plaintively cheeping at me. Then it hopped back under the barrow. I haven’t seen it since. There are a lot of cats about.
Meanwhile, thug bird had managed to climb out of the nest and right along the clematis, where it sat, camouflaged, still demanding food.
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Baby Blackbirds fighting it out
For the past fortnight we’ve been watching our resident blackbird couple feeding the chicks in a nest they precariously built in the climbing hydrangea. In a matter of days they hatched, then we could hear them cheeping only when ma and pa were nearby.
Yesterday we saw them, poking their beaks out of the well-concealed nest. We think there are two chicks. The boys have been banned from playing football, and are most put-out to have to give up their backgarden. They already have to avoid certain games to avoid damaging plants. Now it’s birds.
We found a dead bird (not the blackbirds, a little one with white markings on the wings) yesterday that we think had been got by a cat.
So the boys have been given permission to chase and squirt water pistols at any cats they see setting so much as a paw in our plot. I’m determined those blackbird babies will survive.
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