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04-07-2009, 09:13 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: cheshire
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| | | Interesting neighbours! how common? Our next door neighbours have discovered nesting red-legged partridges in their garden complete with 9 frisky chicks.They had not noticed a nest anywhere in the garden and were not unsuprisingly a little shocked at first.They called the local press who duly reported the story complete with pictures ' EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT -GROUSE CHICKS IN LOCAL GARDEN'---the actual headline was 'local family have no grouse with their with new arrivals'------They also contacted a local wildlife centre who advised to them let the birds get on with it [if they can avoid the local moggies] and that they were in fact red-legged partridges.Oddly enough i noticed a pair of RLP's a few weeks back nibbling in a garden opposite me and i thought it unusual on a small urban estate[presumably mum and dad to be] We live in a market town in cheshire and our houses are about 1/4 mile from open fields.I wonder how common it is for Red legged Patridges to nest in peoples garden | 
04-07-2009, 09:27 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Durham
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| | | Re: Interesting neighbours! how common? Fabulous.Fingers crossed all goes well for them | 
04-07-2009, 09:30 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Earth - I think
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| | | Re: Interesting neighbours! how common? Not really unusual I wouldn't have thought, they are everywhere nowadays - released from captive bred stock for shooting (and non-native  ). Having said that though, they don't seem to breed in the 'wild' around us. | 
04-07-2009, 11:01 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: cheshire
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| | | Re: Interesting neighbours! how common? They're not that common in the wild around here either[mind you there is a fair amount of shooting going on---no wonder they sought refuge next to gnomes].---I'm happy to be corrected but do the RSPB classify their status as vulnerable---Red Leg partridges that is, not gnomes.
Last edited by pegasus; 04-07-2009 at 11:05 PM.
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