This time of the year, especially if it is a dry day, sitting in my lounge with the sliding doors opened, I will often hear young birds chirping on the trees in the garden. Sometimes they will be also be seen "hiding" in the borders calling for the adult birds to continue feeding them if they have just flown their nest. They are of course particularly very vulnerable to the outside world as they are still learning to use their wing thus very prone to bigger birds preying on them.. One of the most common birds which nest in bird boxes fixed onto the fences of our houses are are normally what we would call blue tits in the UK . Unfortunately we didn't get any nesting in ours this year but our neighbour had some in theirs just over on the other side of our fence and we could hear them whenever we see one of the adults returning to feed them.
This picture was taken from our box last year. We had eight eggs, six hatched, lost two to the woodpeckers !! (I saw it being dragged out of their box !!) and when one finally flew out 2 months later (pic below) we found three little "skeletons" left in the nest!
They are very tiny when they leave the nest (probably 2 inches across) - just like in the picture above which we took it last year. After about a few days of flapping about learniong to fly and if they survive that long eventually they will hide in a bush with low branches as they are safer the higher they can go. This morning I noticed a few blue feathers on my lawn and a blue claw next to it which I suspect was one of the foxes' dinner last night!! The weaker ones are the unlucky ones !!
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