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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

Nesting in one of our bird boxes - can't wait till they fledge! Z

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

Ive been obssessed watching the greenfinches in our bird box

They have flown the nest today though

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"Ive been obssessed watching the greenfinches in our bird box

They have flown the nest today though

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Aw, briliant - I was ging to get a camera you can put inside the box but would have put it in the wrong one anyway! We've put a few up and the one that has been used forthe last few years is empty and this family decided touse the one closest to the back door for some bizarre reason! Z

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By *onnoisseur100Man
over a year ago

Woking-ish

I am sorry I can't see them, its probably because they only come out in your private area!

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"I am sorry I can't see them, its probably because they only come out in your private area!

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lol - yes - they're quite shy! Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I bow down to your ornathological knowledge

Am pretty buggered on recognising birds after pigeons and magpies lol

I can spot a flamingo too, but I don't think you see many of them in Bolton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We (me and Ex) used to get a lot of greenfinches in our garden, they are so pretty, he (Ex) used to get really irate though, cos the buggers would sit on the wondow sill pecking the window putty out

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton

Very, very sad news - all the chicks died in the box - we cleaned it out yesterday, it was awful - poor little things, all that hard work wasted. On a positive note, there are loads of other new baby birds in the garden. Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Very, very sad news - all the chicks died in the box - we cleaned it out yesterday, it was awful - poor little things, all that hard work wasted. On a positive note, there are loads of other new baby birds in the garden. Z"

aw, how sad

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"Very, very sad news - all the chicks died in the box - we cleaned it out yesterday, it was awful - poor little things, all that hard work wasted. On a positive note, there are loads of other new baby birds in the garden. Z

aw, how sad"

We're gutted - we noticed a fly in and out last week but there was still chicks alive as we could hear them and mum and dad were feeding them - than it all went quiet so we waited a couple of days then opened the box. Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bless.....thats not good, horrible job too cleaning the box out. I had a similar job cleaing out one of my hives after i lost an entire colony, tragic job

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"Bless.....thats not good, horrible job too cleaning the box out. I had a similar job cleaing out one of my hives after i lost an entire colony, tragic job "

I know,looking at their poor little bodies made my cry, I've thought about getting a bee hive myself, we get loads of bees in our garden. Z

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Bless.....thats not good, horrible job too cleaning the box out. I had a similar job cleaing out one of my hives after i lost an entire colony, tragic job

I know,looking at their poor little bodies made my cry, I've thought about getting a bee hive myself, we get loads of bees in our garden. Z"

They are facinating......i have 3 hives, worth it and the pay off is the honey ...mmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive got a bird table but sadly we dont get many birds due to some magpies that live in a tree just outside the bottom of my garden..

sad about the loss of your baby birds

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By *oe_Steve_NWest OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bolton


"Ive got a bird table but sadly we dont get many birds due to some magpies that live in a tree just outside the bottom of my garden..

sad about the loss of your baby birds"

Thanks Cute, but that's nature I suppose, as for the magpies - just keep scaring them off and make sure there's always food at your table. Z

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By *onnoisseur100Man
over a year ago

Woking-ish


"I am sorry I can't see them, its probably because they only come out in your private area!

lol - yes - they're quite shy! Z"

NO STILL CAN'T SEE THEM, EVEN WITH BINOCULARS!

proper question, when do Robin chicks fledge?

Any ideas?

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By *harax1985Man
over a year ago

Edlington

Is that possessive apostrophe in the title bugging the bejeesus out of anyone else?

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By *cottishrichMan
over a year ago

Here and there


"Is that possessive apostrophe in the title bugging the bejeesus out of anyone else?"

Yep.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tiptoes around a couple of Cuckoos in the nest...

Robins can have two broods a year, 4 to 6 eggs, and the chicks fledge about 14 days after they hatch... Google/ RSPB is my friend...;-)

My mother spends fortunes keeping the feeders filled... And we have all the tits, finches, sparrows, robins, pigeons and squirrels you could ask for...

Last year she had Nutaches and a pair of Jays... All of these a couple of metres from her lounge window...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Nesting in one of our bird boxes - can't wait till they fledge! Z"

i'll send my cat round, they will be gone in a bit

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

On another site i was on a guy kept a webcam on his bird box. It was brilliant wathing them slowly hatch and the mother going off to get food for them

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By *onnoisseur100Man
over a year ago

Woking-ish


"Is that possessive apostrophe in the title bugging the bejeesus out of anyone else?

Yep. "

Perhaps you both need to get out a bit more? It's a little black mark on your (I was tempted) screen. Not worth a heart attack.

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By *ap AdgeMan
over a year ago

Wirral

Had the same by us. I left. Box of maggots from angling shop so the birds had plenty of food. Next to nest box had eight chicks one died. The weather is not helping either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" Last year she had Nutaches and a pair of Jays... All of these a couple of metres from her lounge window... "

Oops... Nuthatches...

Nut Aches is what I get feeding the little treasures...

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