Post by pete11 on Apr 6, 2022 11:21:05 GMT
Ok well here are the last pics of the robin chicks in the nest - there seem only to be two of them visible.
These are screen grabs of the few clips recorded at about 0630 this morning.
Last pic shows the empty nest:
The trail cam didn't pick up any nice leaving-the-nest moments unfortunately.
It looks as if the fledging time wasn't without incident
, as this video shows.... (see below)
One chick is making a bid for the ivy to the right of the box, and seems to make it ok, leaving one chick in the box.
But there are very distinct signs of an imminent threat, as there are two large rustling sounds and ivy moving as if being pulled, accompanied by a lot of warning/alarm calls from parent birds (and not just robins calling by the sound of it).
Having played this over a few times, my theory is that a cat or fox was right below the nest box at the time, waiting for fledglings to descend. There are two waterproof boxes of electrics and internet stuff on the ground directly below this nest box, and the first big sound halfway through the video clip sounds like something hitting theses boxes. The second big sound is of rustling and you can see the ivy being pulled - I think it's likely the cat(?) was attempting to climb up from below, dragging the ivy with it. There's some kind of associated movement in the ivy where the fledgling crept off to (to the right of the frame) at this point, so I don't know if that fledging managed to cling on safely or not.
All a bit of a mystery as to what happened.
However, at least one fledgling clearly survived this moment, as I saw it later on in the morning.
The trail cam takes a while to reset itself after each trigger, so it wasn't the ideal thing to be capturing today's action really.
These are screen grabs of the few clips recorded at about 0630 this morning.
Last pic shows the empty nest:
The trail cam didn't pick up any nice leaving-the-nest moments unfortunately.
It looks as if the fledging time wasn't without incident
, as this video shows.... (see below)One chick is making a bid for the ivy to the right of the box, and seems to make it ok, leaving one chick in the box.
But there are very distinct signs of an imminent threat, as there are two large rustling sounds and ivy moving as if being pulled, accompanied by a lot of warning/alarm calls from parent birds (and not just robins calling by the sound of it).
Having played this over a few times, my theory is that a cat or fox was right below the nest box at the time, waiting for fledglings to descend. There are two waterproof boxes of electrics and internet stuff on the ground directly below this nest box, and the first big sound halfway through the video clip sounds like something hitting theses boxes. The second big sound is of rustling and you can see the ivy being pulled - I think it's likely the cat(?) was attempting to climb up from below, dragging the ivy with it. There's some kind of associated movement in the ivy where the fledgling crept off to (to the right of the frame) at this point, so I don't know if that fledging managed to cling on safely or not.
All a bit of a mystery as to what happened.
However, at least one fledgling clearly survived this moment, as I saw it later on in the morning.
The trail cam takes a while to reset itself after each trigger, so it wasn't the ideal thing to be capturing today's action really.