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03-06-2008, 10:40 AM
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| | | Blue tit attacks nest
Hi all.
My name is John and my wifes name is Chris, we both love to watch the different birds that visit our garden, we feed and water them often.
About two years ago i built two boxes and placed them in the trees at the bottom of our garden, this year for the first time blue tits nested in one of them, we enjoyed watching them everyday until one day last week we noticed one blue tit struggling with something inside the opening, it finally got it through the hole and flew to a near branch with it, we watched through binoculars and realised it was a chick, it proceeded to tug at it and pull it to bits before flying off, since this episode a blue tit has approached the outside of the box and flew off, they have not been back and it now looks like it is abandoned.
Does anyone know why and is this usual.
regards
John |
03-06-2008, 11:24 AM
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| | | Re: Blue tit attacks nest
Parent birds will remove dead chicks from a nest - basic hygiene really. Perhaps there are no living chicks left now.  |
03-06-2008, 01:06 PM
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| |  Re: Blue tit attacks nest
Thanks for the reply makes sense really, was just a bit shocked at the tugging on the dead chick. |
03-06-2008, 09:36 PM
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Hi John & Chris, Welcome to WAB, enjoy. |
04-06-2008, 07:58 AM
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| | | Re: Blue tit attacks nest
Hello John & Chris sorry about the birds but welcome to the site regards Jimmer
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04-06-2008, 09:23 PM
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| | | Re: Blue tit attacks nest
Hi John and welcome to WAB. Sorry to hear about the tits, but there's always next year.
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04-06-2008, 09:30 PM
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| | | Re: Blue tit attacks nest
Hi and welcome,
The blue tits seemed to have had a hard time this year so far. Maybe there wasn't enough insects to feed the chicks. But they may have another brood so all may not be lost..
Good luck.  |
05-06-2008, 04:14 PM
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Thanks to all who posted a reply and thank you for welcoming me to the site, i look forward to seeing the blue tits return and will post if they do.
Kind regards
John |
05-06-2008, 05:52 PM
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Hi John & Chris Welcome to WAB | | |
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