New life

de*lerger · Post by **de*lerger** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:59 am

Found the nest in my garden on Wednesday. The little birds got out of the egg probably on Wednesday and Thursday. This picture was taken Friday evening.
I will post an updated picture when possible.

Until I prepared this post, I didn't even know this bird was called "thrush" in English.

CSI · Post by **CSI** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:23 am

WoW! I'm waiting for a update!

Poutsi · Post by **Poutsi** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:25 am

Thrushs are generally considered as vermins. I hope you or your neighbors don't have anything edible in your garden. My parents have had enough with those, the trushs get used to all kinds of deterrents and scarecrows. Only option is to kill them, and mark my words, they aren't easy targets.

Post by **Nerzhul** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:32 am

Poutsi wrote:Only option is to kill them, and mark my words, they aren't easy targets.

In other words, now might be the time

CSI · Post by **CSI** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:00 am

@ Poutsi & Nerzhul: You bastards!

EDIT:
Sorry, if I sounded hard! Didn't mean to, because I was smiling when I wrote that!
At daytime, things does sound different...

Asiamaniac · Post by **Asiamaniac** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:21 pm

I also had the great occasion some weeks ago to watch the newborn baby-birds, but that was another kind. Looked almost like these in the photos. Everyday I looked at them how they grew up. After some two weeks they have left the nest and I am glad that the parents got their little ones through.

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:01 pm

Poutsi wrote:Thrushs are generally considered as vermins.

This here reads quite differently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrush_%28bird%29

de*lerger · Post by **de*lerger** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:59 pm

Poutsi wrote:Thrushs are generally considered as vermins. I hope you or your neighbors don't have anything edible in your garden. My parents have had enough with those, the trushs get used to all kinds of deterrents and scarecrows. Only option is to kill them, and mark my words, they aren't easy targets.

I don't know what kind of thrush is living in your neighbourhood

In Holland they are well known for their beautiful singing. And as long as I watch these birds, they only eat worms and insects.

Poutsi · Post by **Poutsi** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:33 am

CSI wrote:Sorry, if I sounded hard! Didn't mean to, because I was smiling when I wrote that!
At daytime, things does sound different...

Hehe, no offense taken. I thought it was funny.

de*lerger wrote:I don't know what kind of thrush is living in your neighbourhood In Holland they are well known for their beautiful singing. And as long as I watch these birds, they only eat worms and insects.

Whoops, I was speaking of a special kind of thrush (fieldfare, räkättirastas in Finnish). My parents had some 800 m² of strawberries, and fieldfares were a real nuisance since they ate the berries.

de*lerger · Post by **de*lerger** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:36 pm

Poutsi wrote:
Whoops, I was speaking of a special kind of thrush (fieldfare, räkättirastas in Finnish). My parents had some 800 m² of strawberries, and fieldfares were a real nuisance since they ate the berries.

The fieldfare is in Holland known as kramsvogel. From a distance it looks like the thrush (Dutch: lijster) in my garden. But they only show up in the winter period, so they don't cause much damage.

The "kids" grew a bit bigger, but they still have their eyes closed. So I will wait a little with the update. Meanwhile, one of the parents was so kind to pose in front of my camera:

de*lerger · Post by **de*lerger** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:37 pm

Here's the new picture. Took it on monday evening, 3 says after the first.

bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:48 pm

I had some tits nesting on my balcony. They've tried 4 times this year but never succeeded

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The first time, the nest box was destroyed by a cat

-they aren't easy targets neigther

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jabosa2 · Post by **jabosa2** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:50 pm

Very nice pictures. I'll be waiting for the next

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:28 am

Just to mention, some bird species leave their nests if a human finds them. That means the newborn birds will starve to death as their mother won't come feed them anymore.
This clearly isn't the case with this bird, but you should often think twice before going to some bird's nest..

de*lerger · Post by **de*lerger** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:25 pm

Dakkus wrote:Just to mention, some bird species leave their nests if a human finds them. That means the newborn birds will starve to death as their mother won't come feed them anymore.
This clearly isn't the case with this bird, but you should often think twice before going to some bird's nest..

You're absolutely right about this. Peaking into a birds nest regularly should not be done with (very) shy birds. But on the other hand, they usually avoid populated areas.

This thrush has its nest only 2 meters from my back door (and I never use the front door). I discovered the nest when I was sitting on my garden bench straight under the nest. The old bird was sitting in a tree nearby, being very angry at me. I took a few steps aside and he/she flew straight to the nest. Now I moved the bench two meters and everything is OK. One of the parent birds is even looking for worms underneath the bench with me sitting on it.

Of course, when one of the parents is on or near the nest I leave them alone.