Fledgling starlings

[Tilly2]

The fledglings have arrived in my garden today. What a racket! Their poor parents don't get any peace. They must be the most demanding fledglings of any of our normal garden birds. The blackbird fledglings are hiding in the shrubs with their aggressive parents feeding and guarding them and the robin fledglings just sit and wait in the shrubs and trees waiting for mum and dad to arrive. The blue tits are chirping away in their nest box and the wood pigeons are still trying to make their haphazard nests but bits keep falling off!
I love this time of year.

[icemaiden]

It's so busy now with fledglings. We have also had the noisy pleasure of baby Starlings on the bird table. I do have to occasionally shoo them away as the poor Blackirds and Blue Tits don't get a look in otherwise..It's madness!

[redman41]

The joys of Spring and Nature at its best when the new broods arrive.
Long may it continue Tilly2 !!

[Kiki-frog]

How lovely, Tilly. We've got blackbirds nesting nearby and the parent birds are real drama queens, kicking up a fuss if anyone so much as opens a window. We love them, though.

[chaptazbru]

I envy you all, I haven't seen one baby bird yet ! Oh apart from four tiny ducklings on the river, but they seem to have vanished, poor little things have lots of predators after them.

[Tilly2]

I bought some dried mealworms yesterday, soaked some overnight and put them out this morning. The starlings and robins love them.
Last year we were sitting in the garden when we heard the soft 'thump' of a bird landing on the fence. I mentioned how fat and strange it looked. Next minute, a little wren landed next to it and started feeding it. It was a cuckoo. That was a treat to see.

[chaptazbru]

Tilly I'm really envious, you see some great things. Imagine, a tiny wren feeding a cuckoo - WOW !

[Tilly2]

I have a lot of spare time to sit and look out at the garden. I am lucky.