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I heard lots of magpies distressed alert calls yesterday afternoon just across the road, and I knew that a predator is near by. So I looked outside and saw a sparowhawk on the ground. I thought it caught a pray, as they do that when they catch something, pin them on the ground. As it just happened,...

Good to hear Willpar, I haven't seen any little ones in my garden. I really need to install a cam! I hear crunching though , so I know they come to eat.

I heard lots of magpies distressed alert calls yesterday afternoon just across the road, and I knew that a predator is near by. So I looked outside and saw a sparowhawk on the ground. I thought it caught a pray, as they do that when they catch something, pin them on the ground. As it just happened, ...

I think they left my area too, much quieter these days.

I have been enjoying visits from Greenfinches for a long time now even through the period when tricho was decimating their numbers. They turned up with some fledglings today which was a very welcome sight. That's really great Jack :clap: , they sure are not in great numbers. I have seen few in my g...

Sadly, I think my blackbirds couple's nest has failed :( A while ago, I heard a group of magpies loudly chatting about something. Obviously, it attracted my attention and I went out to see what all the chatter was about. At first, they all flew away and it seemed like there was nothing going on. Tha...

Very noisy here too, hard to see them but very easy to hear them
Good to know that they seem to have had a good breading season

I have a very friendly blackbird couple coming to my garden, which I find very unusual because blackbirds have always been very nervous and would always fly away quickly if I appear. Not this couple. They worked out around what time I come out to put the food out and its become a routine that they ...

That's quite sad peregrine, its good that the chicks are given a chance to survive, but its sad that parents can't feed them :( Do you know why they are being relocated to Spain? I think the report suggests that getting the chicks to Spain will give them a better chance of completing the migration ...

That's quite sad peregrine, its good that the chicks are given a chance to survive, but its sad that parents can't feed them
Do you know why they are being relocated to Spain?