dead chicks

clare71 · #1 (**permalink**) 17-05-2011, 08:34 AM

Hi my name is Clare and I'm new to this site! I live in Carmarthenshire in West Wales! I would like to say how shocked I am this year at the amount of dead chicks I've come accross in my garden!

so far I've found around 15! Has anyone else found that many? I'm not sure of their breed but we always have, house sparrows blackbirds and various tits nesting every year! Anyway on a happier note we have blue tits in a nesting box and the house martins are rebuilding

also saw the first song thrush this morning

htcdude · #2 (**permalink**) 17-05-2011, 08:38 AM

Hi Clare and welcome to WAB

Do you have any pics of the dead birds? Do they look like they've been attacked at all?

Great news that you have some successful nesting going on as well!

Nige

Pipa · #3 (**permalink**) 17-05-2011, 10:45 AM

Awe

we had a nest of 4 chicks die this year, blackbird ones, that mom abandoned, (apparently its common for blackbirds to do that)

agree with Nige, check to see if they have been attacked by anything, cats/magpies etc

clare71 · #4 (**permalink**) 18-05-2011, 09:00 AM

Hi Nige and Pipa, there didn't seem to be any signs that they had been attacked that's what intrigued me to be honest! They were quite smelly as if they'd been dead for a while, even the ones that I found right outside my door one morning indicating that they may have been dead in the nest! I have several house sparrows nesting just above my door! If they had just fallen out then surely they wouldn't be so smelly!