I can't do it!!!!!

[Jackaroo]

Originally Posted by FUDGEY

Dont get to caught up with "guidelines" mate, I do as I think is right. Too many like to bleat about letting nature take its course, but at times this is impossible for me. There are 100s of examples where we interfere with nature, sometimes to small degree and others to a huge degree. We are all entitled to our opinion so do what YOU think is right. If it were me, Id have put it of the ground in a safer place. Good luck

Sounds like advice to me.

[2dogs2000]

Well I put junior in a box on the shelving in the garden at about 8p.m. Then about 8.20p.m. the parents came to give him his supper and he wasn't in the box. He had hopped out and was hiding in the Astilbe. The parents found him and as he seemed well hidden I decided to leave him and hope for the best. This morning both parents were calling and frantically looking for him and found him in a raised flower bed near the house. One of the parents brought him a fat green caterpillar for breakfast. It was funny to watch the parents sitting on the clothes line as they appeared to be vibrating their wings to show him how it was done. Anyway , I had to go to work and left them to it. When I got home at 1p.m. he was gone. The parents are still collecting food from my garden but taking it to some bushes two gardens away so I am assuming he finally flew. (nobody tell me any different pleeaaassse).

Here is a photo of him. He doesn't look to happy about leaving the comfort of his nest.



My dogs are pleased they can roam freely in their back garden now. They have had to have supervised toileting as one was sniffing the trail of the fledgling and she is quite excitable.

[man of kent]

the same thing has happened to me today.
six blue tits left a nesting box in our garden yesterday and today.all but one flew away but he/she is half the size of the others and as of yet unable to fly.i sat in the garden for 8 hours today armed only with a bag of crisps an two hobnobs in an attempt to make sure no cats came our way.at first the parents seemed to occasionally feed him/her but later in the day it was shunned in favour of the other five.i also 'can't do it' so i have brought it inside and fed it on some small worms dug from the garden.i know this isn't the recognised protocol but the bird has fed well and seems content wheras earlier it had appeared to give up.should i get in contact with rspb etc,attempt to put it back in it's box....i'm not sure??
with aprox 16 different types of feeding stations and 5 watering stations in the garden and a fairly substantial investment in bird food for the year i can't begin to explain the hours of joy i get everyday from watching my pampered feathered friends....time and money well spent......i just couldn't let the poor little fella suffer.....any help would be great

[Kayleigh]

Well done its out of your hands now..
If it was up to me I would have "cat curfew" from the end of Feb to the end of Sept..