deborah4
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I've followed a pair of Great Tits for weeks taking food from feeders and returning to a large tree in neighbours garden. Neighbour decided to erected scaffolding a few weeks ago and builders have been working 10 feet away from tree. Neighbour also has black young moggy who stalks everything. And I have a squirrel who eats everything.
Fortunately, working at home often, I get to spend a lot of time at the window overlooking the garden o Much of this time is spent with one eye on bird watch another on cat watch. Today, the cat was persistent and so was I but this evening I was drawn to the window by a sudden cacophony of manic baby bird noises from the tree overhanging the garden. I went to the back door. OH NO!!!! That b****y cat's climed the tree , I thought, and is raiding the Great Tit nest. I couldn't see anything but the noise continued. Resigned that there was little I could do, I closed the door. The noise continued but then I heard a black bird sing in the garden (funny, should be alarming surely?) so went back out to have another butchers.
Suddenly! Out of the tree swept 7 Great Tits! Mum, Dad and 5 little 'uns! They went crazy round the feeders, on the seed, on the fat, on the water bath. I have never seen such a sight so close to hand. They had all flown the nest at the same time and were all demanding to be fed. :bounce: I watched for 30 mins (at one point the cat returned but was sent running by me - sorry cat lovers, but this one is a little scared of me o ).
WONDERFUL experience ... they're all back in the tree now and its quiet again.
Fortunately, working at home often, I get to spend a lot of time at the window overlooking the garden o Much of this time is spent with one eye on bird watch another on cat watch. Today, the cat was persistent and so was I but this evening I was drawn to the window by a sudden cacophony of manic baby bird noises from the tree overhanging the garden. I went to the back door. OH NO!!!! That b****y cat's climed the tree , I thought, and is raiding the Great Tit nest. I couldn't see anything but the noise continued. Resigned that there was little I could do, I closed the door. The noise continued but then I heard a black bird sing in the garden (funny, should be alarming surely?) so went back out to have another butchers.
Suddenly! Out of the tree swept 7 Great Tits! Mum, Dad and 5 little 'uns! They went crazy round the feeders, on the seed, on the fat, on the water bath. I have never seen such a sight so close to hand. They had all flown the nest at the same time and were all demanding to be fed. :bounce: I watched for 30 mins (at one point the cat returned but was sent running by me - sorry cat lovers, but this one is a little scared of me o ).
WONDERFUL experience ... they're all back in the tree now and its quiet again.