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Jun 2020
9:16am, 4 Jun 2020
42,640 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve seen them a couple of times around NE Lancs. One sighting was by the canal, which having seen them in that London previously was even odder than the urban Colne sighting
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Jun 2020
3:39pm, 4 Jun 2020
13,678 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
The bird feeder has been stupidly busy today. We got hold of some more squirrel food and moved that to the end of the garden and it seems to have drawn most of the squirrels away from the bird food. Lots of sparrows, robins, coal tits, blue tits, blackbirds, dunnocks, pigeons and magpies today. At one point there were four birds all on the feeders at once which is very much a record for us!
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Jun 2020
4:00pm, 4 Jun 2020
2,601 posts
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um
We got mobbed at one point by about 30 starlings.
Also today, first sight of fledgling goldfinches, and also first 2020 sighting of siskins.
Do they migrate later than others? Or has the recent hot weather kept them elsewhere?
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Jun 2020
4:21pm, 4 Jun 2020
1,708 posts
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panad
Maybe a silly question, but when the fledgings leave the nest do they return? Or are they self-sufficient from then on. Only 3 blackbirds in the nest since first thing this morning..
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Jun 2020
4:42pm, 4 Jun 2020
2,602 posts
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um
panad - I’m no expert, but blackbirds here (SE Wilts) seem to ‘semi-fledge’ and hop around for up to a week self feeding and still being fed by the parents. Often they look bigger than the parents.
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Jun 2020
4:42pm, 4 Jun 2020
19,172 posts
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flanker
Parakeets already in several areas around Manchester - large "crowd" around Didsbury that are vocal supporters of the local parkrun.
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Jun 2020
4:43pm, 4 Jun 2020
2,603 posts
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um
Sorry, but no idea if they return to the nest or sleep out.
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Jun 2020
5:22pm, 4 Jun 2020
5,955 posts
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Eynsham Red
Um, we’ve had several broods of blackbirds in our garden. The young seem to spend the nights on the ground around the shrubs and plants in the flower borders.
It’s been fascinating watching how they develop, with the adult (normally male) feeding them initially, then they feed themselves and finally, the adult chasing them off to find their own patch. This presumably to leave enough room for the next brood.
I think we’re now seeing the fourth set of young now.
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Jun 2020
5:29pm, 4 Jun 2020
42,664 posts
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Derby Tup
I’m waiting still for my great tit family to fledge. Let’s just say it’s a good job I never had kids 
I did see two independent young great tit earlier on our feeders. Lovely to see and I’m already looking forward to next March for them teacher teachering
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Jun 2020
8:28am, 5 Jun 2020
3,926 posts
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steve45
Fledged young birds don't "go back home"! They may stay in the vicinity but their nest tenancy is over! Um....Siskins breed widely throughout the UK though less so in Central England. It wouldn't be migration yet and they wouldn't be late winter migrants returning.
Kingfisher this morning while on run. Three Whitethroats.
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