Hi I have just joined today hoping for some advice please. I had workmen in to take down a giant Elder bush in my garden today. They found a blackbirds nest inside the bush with five well grown baby birds who are not fully feathered. I feel terrible because I had seen the blackbird and looked for the nest but could not see it. The men were lovely, they phoned the RSPCA (or RSPB) and were told they could carefully move the nest to a nearby place and the adult bird would find it. They did this really gently, and hollowed out a place in a very bushy clematis by my back door. It is very near where the nest was originally (about 8 feet) I have seen the adult hanging around, but it seems very distressed because the bush is gone. I have not seen it go where the nest now is, although I am leaving the garden in peace. How long should I wait before I try to get help for them if the adults don't find them? Is it likely that they will find them? We tried to pick the best place away from predators.
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