Post by pete11 on Jun 21, 2021 19:01:57 GMT
Sad to report I found one dead robin chick on the lawn just now. It didn't look developed enough to be a fledgling.
We haven't seen the parent birds at all today.
With no noises coming from the ivy I decided to have a closer look - sure enough I found the nest ... It's empty.
It looks hardly big enough to accommodate anything the size of the dead chick I found, so it's hard to imagine there being a whole brood in there.
I'm guessing it was either predated by something (magpie? cat?), or the rest of the brood fledged today despite the rain, and the under-developed dead one I found was just an unfortunate late developer who didn't make it.
Here's the nest:
We haven't seen the parent birds at all today.
With no noises coming from the ivy I decided to have a closer look - sure enough I found the nest ... It's empty.
It looks hardly big enough to accommodate anything the size of the dead chick I found, so it's hard to imagine there being a whole brood in there.
I'm guessing it was either predated by something (magpie? cat?), or the rest of the brood fledged today despite the rain, and the under-developed dead one I found was just an unfortunate late developer who didn't make it.
Here's the nest: