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Bird alarm calls
I now know what a robin alarm call sounds like...
Two robins in the mulberry tree making an awful lot of one short repeated note.
Wondered what it was, then looked by the point in the ivy where we think their nest is.
CAT
Went and chased off the cat. Alarm calls instantly ceased.
I do hope the babies are okay. The cat wouldn't be sniffing around there if the eggs hadn't hatched.
(We can hear the baby blackbirds in the hedge where the roses are, but that's harder for a cat to get to)
Richard's loaded the supersoaker by the back door.
I've been watching around ten minutes now (and chased the cat off once more). The parents are clearly nervous about approaching the nest again. They keep flying to the ivy and then backing off again. I can see one now, with a beak full of food, but he's waiting in the mulberry.
I think I'll go and wash the dishes. That will put me in a position where I can watch the garden for half an hour and hear any alarm calls, while still getting some useful work done.
PS. If you have a cat, and can face keeping it indoors for a month, this really is the time of year when baby birds are at their most vulnerable. I'll bet whoever owns this tabby has no idea that it's out hunting baby robins.
Two robins in the mulberry tree making an awful lot of one short repeated note.
Wondered what it was, then looked by the point in the ivy where we think their nest is.
CAT
Went and chased off the cat. Alarm calls instantly ceased.
I do hope the babies are okay. The cat wouldn't be sniffing around there if the eggs hadn't hatched.
(We can hear the baby blackbirds in the hedge where the roses are, but that's harder for a cat to get to)
Richard's loaded the supersoaker by the back door.
I've been watching around ten minutes now (and chased the cat off once more). The parents are clearly nervous about approaching the nest again. They keep flying to the ivy and then backing off again. I can see one now, with a beak full of food, but he's waiting in the mulberry.
I think I'll go and wash the dishes. That will put me in a position where I can watch the garden for half an hour and hear any alarm calls, while still getting some useful work done.
PS. If you have a cat, and can face keeping it indoors for a month, this really is the time of year when baby birds are at their most vulnerable. I'll bet whoever owns this tabby has no idea that it's out hunting baby robins.
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We have a resident robin, who generally starts signing at 04:30 and has a huge songtime at dusk as well. Truly wonderful.
We've got a number of nesting birds in the hedges and trees behind our garden (the starlings use a hole in our side eaves where they've found a safe place to nest - 3 clutches this Spring!)but their biggest problem is the crows!
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I'm all for saving Robins of any age.
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Birds that nest night lose out to crows and sparrowhawks. Birds that nest low lose to cats and foxes.
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two robins??? It's a portent!
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There are a LOT of cats. Cats can only be shooed away, IF I'm there to do it.
We must have tougher cats around here... We lost a nest of baby blackbirds to a cat last year.
It's looking as though I arrived too late as I haven't seen the robins this afternoon.
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