Birds nest question

[ColeyS1]

Sounds like these birds are gonna be having better meals than me soon !

Coley

 

[ColeyS1]

Feed me, feed me

There were 6 eggs but I only count 4 chicks. Wonder how long until they learn to fly.

They look a bit creepy being so small and bald !

Coley
Edit- 5 chicks on last count.

 

[Harbo]

Very quickly - about 3 weeks

Rod

 

[RogerS]

Wonder if anyone can suggest what has happened to our two resident swallows? They arrived back and went into their nest which is well hidden up at the roof apex in our outbuilding. A few weeks after they arrived we found one smashed egg on the ground but maybe 6-8ft away from the nest and another on one of the shelves of a storage unit...and definitely not in line of site or trajectory from the nest. The nest looks undamaged but our two swallows have gone. I can't see how the eggs can have got as far away from the nest as they did.

Can rats climb upside down up the beams to get to the nest ?

 

[Benchwayze]

Seeing as we're on a bird theme.
Does anyone have a solution to stopping the cat killing birds?
I love her to bits but in the last fortnight we've had three "gifts".
We've tried collars with bells but she loses or some how gets out of them. I don't want to be going down "Ali's Super-Duper Cut Price Pet Emporium" and getting one that doesn't have the breakaway clasp, but short of keeping her in I'm not sure what to do with her.
I've always had cats but this pipper is the most effective bird killing machine I've ever seen :lol:

Kill the cat. (Extreme, but it's about the only way I think!)

I am jesting of course n0Legs, but I think you are on a loser, trying to suppress a ruthless killer!

Best of luck..

 

[Eric The Viking]

Wonder if anyone can suggest what has happened to our two resident swallows? They arrived back and went into their nest which is well hidden up at the roof apex in our outbuilding. A few weeks after they arrived we found one smashed egg on the ground but maybe 6-8ft away from the nest and another on one of the shelves of a storage unit...and definitely not in line of site or trajectory from the nest. The nest looks undamaged but our two swallows have gone. I can't see how the eggs can have got as far away from the nest as they did.

Can rats climb upside down up the beams to get to the nest ?

Squirrel?

They are quite opportunist about birds' nests.

Our lot (Blue-****) have done really well this year - at least four young fledged, possibly five or six so far. But they're in the 'holiday home' nestbox as the normal one is occupied by European Tree Bees, which are fun in a different way.

We had a squirrel getting very interested in the Blue-***'s nest box on Sunday morning. Saw it and chased it off tho.

 

[Benchwayze]

If the recipe I have for flaxseed bread proves to be of no use, can anyone tell me if birds will eat commercial flaxseed? I suppose they will, I'll mix them with some old dripping from the Sunday roast! :-k O

 

[Eric The Viking]

If the recipe I have for flaxseed bread proves to be of no use, can anyone tell me if birds will eat commercial flaxseed? I suppose they will, I'll mix them with some old dripping from the Sunday roast! :-k O

Gone in seconds, judging by how fast the seed in our feeder vanishes. They love it with dripping on, and it's good for them (or so I've been told).

 

[ColeyS1]

I remember when birds use to eat peanuts. What happened to that ? Most people's nut feeders I see look untouched shrivelled and skanky. Perhaps we've been spoiling them with too many choices.

Coley

 

[RogerS]

If the recipe I have for flaxseed bread proves to be of no use, can anyone tell me if birds will eat commercial flaxseed? I suppose they will, I'll mix them with some old dripping from the Sunday roast! :-k O

Our birds are incredibly fussy! We get some mixed seed from Wilco and a lot of it is simply thrown out by the birds as deemed 'unfit for consumption' by them!!

 

[RogerS]

Wonder if anyone can suggest what has happened to our two resident swallows? They arrived back and went into their nest which is well hidden up at the roof apex in our outbuilding. A few weeks after they arrived we found one smashed egg on the ground but maybe 6-8ft away from the nest and another on one of the shelves of a storage unit...and definitely not in line of site or trajectory from the nest. The nest looks undamaged but our two swallows have gone. I can't see how the eggs can have got as far away from the nest as they did.

Can rats climb upside down up the beams to get to the nest ?

Squirrel?

They are quite opportunist about birds' nests.

Our lot (Blue-****) have done really well this year - at least four young fledged, possibly five or six so far. But they're in the 'holiday home' nestbox as the normal one is occupied by European Tree Bees, which are fun in a different way.

We had a squirrel getting very interested in the Blue-***'s nest box on Sunday morning. Saw it and chased it off tho.

Interesting thought but the nest looks undamaged and the hole too small for a squirrel.

 

[Eric The Viking]

I remember when birds use to eat peanuts. What happened to that ? Most people's nut feeders I see look untouched shrivelled and skanky. Perhaps we've been spoiling them with too many choices.

Coley

It's interesting, that - we get the same here. We have three feeders together - peanuts (untouched for ages at a time), mixed small seed (Millet, etc.), which goes down really fast, and the fat balls, which sometimes go fast and sometimes don't.

 

[RogerS]

Please don't give them peanuts in the breeding season.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/makeahomeforwild ... ofeed.aspx

 

[ColeyS1]

Seems like they've left the nest, besides a dead one. I'm guessing it's o.k to remove it now ? Without going into too much detail it's definitely 100 % dead ! I guess there's no reason I couldn't air the house out either for a day now ?

Coley