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    Anyone else noticed less House Sparrows fledged this year?

    Most of my nestboxes were occupied by house sparrows and at least two broods have been produced in each. A good year for them, although they spend their time emptying my feeders there are a lot of insects around this year so they should do OK.
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    Kingfisher

    If you can spend time at the same spot each visit, just sticking a perch in the bank (long stick angled to hang over the water) will increase chances of a bird stopping near you so you can get a pic. We used to live on a river and I have hundreds of pics. Really miss them now. Magnificent bird...
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    Bird feeders through the year?

    We also back onto extensive woodland so I don't feel too bad about denying them occasionally. At current rate of consumption seed and nut feeders need refilling 3-4 times a week, I'm going to refill twice a week and allow a brief 'famine' in between. Come the autumn I will keep filled...
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    Bird feeders through the year?

    Sorry if this has been discussed before, I haven't been around for a while. Is it a good idea to keep feeders topped up all year? Mine have become very popular with the new chicks (tits, sparrow etc) but am I encouraging a feeder-dependent population who won't develop foraging skills? Or is it...
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    Young something, SW England

    It looks like a juvenile something or other, jiggered if I can pin it down though. TIA
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Moorhen up the tree after the feeder.
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    Nest box activity 2016

    Update (I'll stop soon, honest) - still sitting on 11 eggs, 31 days and counting. She goes out to feed occasionally but still comes back, shuffles them around and settles down. Hard to believe they are all infertile. Male hasn't visited for some time. Surely she has to give up soon?
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    Nest box activity 2016

    Also, she's bringing in new nesting material all the time, first feathers (the final part) but now rough grass and straw just like when she started.
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    Blooded Swan

    I thought the ginger top know was an age thing, seen on older swans round here but not the younger ones.
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    Unsuccessful birdbox

    http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=3403487#post3403487
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    Nest box activity 2016

    Ours is still diligently sitting, 24 days and counting. All 11 must be duff but she still sits, moves them round and generally fusses over them. Not sure how this will end.
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    All five blue tit chicks dead this morning

    Thanks, just been out and got some.
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    All five blue tit chicks dead this morning

    The cool spring is also to blame, if we could just see some warm days and nights the insect life might increase to where it should be and food sources more certain. We're seeing aphid numbers build up on our roses but little else and we haven't enough roses to feed all the birds around here.
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    Nest box activity 2016

    Day 19 now and she's still incubating 11 eggs. Could they be duds? Could hubby be firing blanks?
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    Help Please

    I had the same, from first inspection to first egg laying was nearly six weeks, with several pauses in between. She's now sitting on 11 eggs.
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    Mallards up a tree

    It wasn't the physical shock that killed them, more the emotional shock. Moorhen chicks are incredibly fragile in many ways.
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    Nest box activity 2016

    A flurry (if that's the word) of egg laying and she has produced nine eggs. Still not sitting on them for any length of time though. Also, she's still bringing nesting material in. Not seen a male in the box but I assume he brings nesting material to the entrance.
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    Mallards up a tree

    In one of his books Charlie Hamilton James describes moorhens that nested up a tree. Unfortunately their instinct, like other waterfowl, was to get the chicks out on the water as soon as they hatch. The fall killed them all, one by one.
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    Great Tits Checking Out My Camera Nestbox

    Are you assuming that because nest building has stopped? The blues in mine have taken ages to put a nest together, with long bouts of inactivity. I read somewhere else on here they time their egg laying to when there is sufficient food for youngsters, with the cold spring I reckon they are just...
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    Hello - blue tits nest box question

    The OP describes my box activity exactly. No eggs yet though, and I agree it's better than TV.
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    Nest box activity 2016

    I'm afraid the nestbox camera is not a colour one, everything's a faint shade of pink. If a clutch of eggs appears I'll happily post pics here.
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    Nest box activity 2016

    I had nothing last year but as posted elsewhere this year there is a single blue tit making regular visits occasionally with nesting material and there is a bit of a nest there but its main activity is pecking at the walls and floor as if to trying to make holes. At one part he/she is nearly...
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    Nesting time

    Got a camera in one box and the bird brings in scraps of nesting material now and again but is more interested in trying to break out, pecking away at the floor and wall for ages. Going to have to repair it soon. :C Perhaps it's just frustration at not being able to get a girlfriend/boyfriend.
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    Weekend Trip

    I think I've posted this elsewhere, but the 'Sightings' links on the left tell you what's about and where http://www.birder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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    Weekend Trip

    Slimbridge WWT is the obvious one. Other than that any place along the Severn Estuary (Arlingham, Awre, Fretherne/Saul etc). Then there's West Glos - the Wye Valley/ Forest of Dean (Symond's Yat etc)
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