norfolk dumpling Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 I've a fairly big and slightly out of control garden and wife and I have both noticed several late broods - blackbirds, robins, goldfinches, tree creepers etc. Neither of us have noticed this to the same extent before and this morning a family of young wrens were kicking up a fuss in one of my trees. Anyone else notice this - late wet spring here and very warm late summer which may be to blame? Also we are fairly sure goldfinches have got three broods in. Despite poor start to the breeding season they nested early, under the wide overhang of our thatch, and built a nest in the wisteria flowers before the leaf growth properly developed. Two more nests later, one in in a pear tree and another in the wisteria, and we have only noticed one pair of birds in that part of the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Yes they are still nesting in northern Cambridgeshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Same here, I have a family of young wrens going backwards and forwards through one of my pheasant pens netting. Definately got very late pheasants and some late blackbirds about too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilksy II Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Yes I noticed a second brood of blackbirds fledged the other day, four young thrushes on a hedgerow about a week ago and the collared doves have been busy, I've counted 10 at once on my chickens feeder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 "I've a fairly big and slightly out of control Garden and wife" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herby Posted August 28, 2016 Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Yes I noticed chicks chirping in a wall under a gutter yesterday and I thought it was late in the year for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk dumpling Posted August 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2016 Bruno22f - yes although the troublesome lass is heading for Oregon as I write. Probably just nearing the Canadian coastline. A week of peace and quiet, a bit of shooting and every bit of sport I can find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matone Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Still got unfledged swallows despite many having left a few days ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 I am sitting in the courtyard having my breakfast on a gloriously sunny morning. I can see a recently fledged brood of swallows being attended to by their parents and I can hear that our favourite house sparrow (Simon) has a new brood of chicks under the gutter. As I write a pigeon has come to the stone trough for water and the goldfinches are flitting around. The male starling is on tremendous form burbling and he looks resplendent in his autumn colours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 I am sitting in the courtyard having my breakfast on a gloriously sunny morning. I can see a recently fledged brood of swallows being attended to by their parents and I can hear that our favourite house sparrow (Simon) has a new brood of chicks under the gutter. As I write a pigeon has come to the stone trough for water and the goldfinches are flitting around. The male starling is on tremendous form burbling and he looks resplendent in his autumn colours. Hooo JD you paint such a tranquil picture, did your butler bring you breakfast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Do magpies count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Hooo JD you paint such a tranquil picture, did your butler bring you breakfast? Tranquil indeed apart from the incessant and monotonous cooing of a collared dove, and no sadly the butler did not serve breakfast as it his day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konnie Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Good to hear, father noticed the swallows that use the farm buildings only had one brood this year, which is a first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 The following text has been copied from another post titled 2 to 3000 pigeons in the talk from the field forum. They're still mating and nesting down south. There's loads gritting on the side of the road and mating up on the wires. The other day I saw one with a nest twig in its beak up on the line. Years ago I can remember seeing a brood of pheasants that were like blackbirds in early November don't know if they ever survived or not. Hasn't everyone got an out of control wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 I thought all the swifts had gone but a week ago I saw a pair flying with the swallows and the day after one dashed under my pan tiles. Not seen any since though. Out stalking a couple of days ago I saw a brood of fledged spotted flycatchers on a Woodside, the first I have seen anywhere for a few years now. I have a woodpigeon sat on her nest in my garden hedgerow. I always though that the peak pigeon breeding season was across mid to late summer to coincide with the ripening cereals then the harvest. To see game chicks at this time is very unusual in my experience but second brood poults should still small most around three or four weeks old now. The cold horrible wet June did for a lot of wild partridge even on ground specifically managed for them although some areas were not quite as badly effected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 Every single one of the swifts in this village, of which there must have been fifty pairs plus young, went on 18th and 19th August. The vernacular roof material here is pantile, ideal for swifts to enter the roof cavities, especially of older houses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmytree Posted August 29, 2016 Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 "I've a fairly big and slightly out of control Garden and wife" ? Or possibly a wife with a fairly big and out of control lady garden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk dumpling Posted August 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2016 No it was well under control before she travelled - has a theory all has to be in order (clean underware too) in case she is involved in an incident which hospitalises her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) The wheat harvest is only just underway here but the stubbles have already revealed good numbers of wild Grey partridges. This to me is a real treat and takes me back to my childhood and teens when they were all over the place. I shot a good few too. The last lot I saw yesterday were the size of bumble bees and could have been no more than a few days old. Outside my window I have just seen a collection of forty young swallows and twenty young house martins. They are on the wires as I speak. A very nice sight. Edited August 31, 2016 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 That's encouraging news. Let's hope it the same a few miles north west of you. The wheat harvest is only just underway here but the stubbles have already revealed good numbers of wild Grey partridges. This to me is a real treat and takes me back to my childhood and teens when they were all over the place. I shot a good few too. The last lot I saw yesterday were the size of bumble bees and could have been no more than a few days old. Outside my window I have just seen a collection of forty young swallows and twenty young house martins. They are on the wires as I speak. A very nice sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Still got unfledged swallows despite many having left a few days ago. Same here got a nesting pair with chicks in nest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_seagrave Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Saw plenty of woodies with twigs in their mouths over the Grand Union Canal (MK/Leighton Buzzard) this weekend. LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adge Cutler Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 I've a fairly big and slightly out of control garden and wife and I have both noticed several late broods - blackbirds, robins, goldfinches, tree creepers etc. Neither of us have noticed this to the same extent before and this morning a family of young wrens were kicking up a fuss in one of my trees. Anyone else notice this - late wet spring here and very warm late summer which may be to blame? Also we are fairly sure goldfinches have got three broods in. Despite poor start to the breeding season they nested early, under the wide overhang of our thatch, and built a nest in the wisteria flowers before the leaf growth properly developed. Two more nests later, one in in a pear tree and another in the wisteria, and we have only noticed one pair of birds in that part of the garden. Only yesterday I saw a female Great Crested Grebe with 3 young chicks under its wing coverts...could only have been a couple of days old and we have a song thrush feeding week old young in a bush at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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