Eh!

[kram]

2 hours ago, Oldfeller said:

or until they get eaten!

Or hit a window!

 

[AHPP]

6 hours ago, Stubby said:

Seen a woodpecker trying to enlarge the hole in a blue tit box to get at the chicks . 

 

Does anyone remember the children's television programme, The Animals of Farthing Wood? It was all quite gentle and pleasant and as you'd expect. And then clearly one of the writers woke up very, very angry and decided that the primary school children who watched it needed to witness some brutal truths. It suddenly went from all the lovely fluffy creatures living in unrealistic harmony to bulldozers turning up to flatten their home for a bypass. Then, in the confusion of fleeing, the kestrels impaled the mice on thorns. Profound bit of television. Like Schindler's List for kids.

Edited June 8 by AHPP

[Mick Dempsey]

5 hours ago, kram said:

Or hit a window!

 

Looks more like the work of sparrow hawk. 

[difflock]

Well, before  I got a couple of pints and a lovely late lunch today, I fired the lawnmower up for prob the first time in a month, stopping to rescue so so many froglets through the grass, yes it was that long and wet! and not cut for a month since it has been that wet with us over here, then hopped on the wee Koti with the Major mower to cut down the lane and around the pond.  Except when I got to the back corner of the pond, there was a hen pheasent with chicks. So I choose to quit.

And I then decided to investigate wtf the moorhen was making such a racket on the pond, and lo and behold, she had very young 3 chicks out and about. Did she perhaps lose the first nest of eggs?

P.S.

The big placid neutered tom cat from Belfast, that was a rescue kitten and  kept in the house from a kitten and never allowed out, or been showed how to hunt by his mother,  has turned into a stalking/ killing machine,  well he catches the odd schrew and a rat or 2.  Nature, huh.

Cheers all

Marcus

 

Edited July 11 by difflock