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  • #2
    jmkennedyie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭jmkennedyie


    May be too late, but I'd say try to replace (even artifically) some of the original cover around the nest, then stay away from that part of the garden for at least a few hours.

    Keep an eye on any activity.

    Any idea what species it is?


  • #3
    pokerbrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭pokerbrick


    no idea, was wondering that myself.
    could i feed them myself?


  • #4
    pokerbrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭pokerbrick


    happy days just spotted the mother coming back.
    thanx 4 your help


  • #5
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Baby Blackbirds. Not an overly shy bird or easy deserter. Will need cover though to prevent predation.


  • #6
    pokerbrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭pokerbrick


    no not a blackbird.
    ive seen it, its small in size like a swallow.

    also there is a bird in the garden that sings like a house alarm any ideas?


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  • #7
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    pokerbrick wrote: »
    also there is a bird in the garden that sings like a house alarm any ideas?

    Lots of birds mimic - we have a blackbird that does a fantastic version of my neighbours daughter screaming! It hilarious.
    I've heard reports of birds copying house alarms before, though not sure what species - could well be a blackbird.


  • #8
    jmkennedyie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭jmkennedyie


    Starling is a famous mimic too. I once heard Curlew, Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler and numerous other birds from my leaba (bed) when staying in Cape Clear Bird Obs. I thought the warden was pulling my leg and playing some CDs...but then realised it was a starling singing his heart out on the roof!

    Haven't heard of starlings nesting in grass before though...typically in buildings/eaves.


  • #9
    Sundew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    My Dad was clearing his garden the other week but luckily the mother left the nest as he started to chop :D he knew immediately there was a nest and located it within a few minutes. It thought him a lesson not to clear till August :o
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055582987

    I'd suggest perhaps putting some brush "old branches perhaps closeby to the nest so that it ain't as viewable to predators. Have you still got that vegetation in the garden that you cleared?


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