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May 2022
8:12am, 8 May 2022
69,511 posts
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Diogenes
I found a fourth one on the front drive.
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May 2022
8:15am, 8 May 2022
33,504 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Markings look like starling, could they have been predated by a larger bird then accidentally dropped? No idea other than that. Very sad 😢
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May 2022
9:28am, 8 May 2022
21,424 posts
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Ness
I think they do look like starlings but not 100% sure. Are there a lot of cats in your area, Dio? In my area there's also the possibility of fox predation too.
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May 2022
9:40am, 8 May 2022
3,681 posts
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jacdaw
Starlings. They usually nest high up, in holes, so less likely to be cats or foxes. Woodpeckers would. However, it's odd that a predator (other than a cat) would kill them and not eat them.
It could be the nest collapsed in some way, or another bird (a different species, possibly) wanted to use the nest space and cleared it out. Or even, they had died in the nest (heat, starvation, poison) and the parent (or another bird) had cleared them for another attempt.
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May 2022
10:08am, 8 May 2022
88,772 posts
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Hanneke
Cleared from the nest I would say. Either by parents as they died, or by another bird.
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May 2022
10:56am, 8 May 2022
55,348 posts
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Derby Tup
It’s that time of year sadly. Adults who raise and fledge young successfully are amazing. I’ll never forget ‘my’ great tit family fledging during the original 2019 lock down. One of the young nearly flew into me 
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May 2022
2:58pm, 8 May 2022
4,168 posts
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J2R
DT, you got your lockdown in a year early.
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May 2022
2:58pm, 8 May 2022
69,517 posts
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Diogenes
There were a group of rooks about lately making lots of noise. It’s odd that they’re starlings because that’s a common bird I don’t see very much around here. We don’t get them in the garden.
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May 2022
3:18pm, 8 May 2022
3,682 posts
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jacdaw
They might be too big for starlings, re-reading your first post. I didn't think they were black enough for crows, but now I am wondering.
Rooks usually nest communally?
If they are crows then it could have been a bird, a blown down nest or human interference. Could they have been jackdaws in a chimney?
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May 2022
3:21pm, 8 May 2022
2,175 posts
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Heinzster
They look too young to be starlings of that size - 4 inches would be pretty much adult size, I wonder about jackdaws or rooks
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