Spring Watch 🦉 from your living room or garden 🐝

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,516 Online Community Team
    edited May 20
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1126475#Comment_1126475

    Love this! I think in my garden I see the other side of it. There's a magpie that comes, grabs food and then flies off with it in their beak. There were two so I wonder if they've now got a little nest somewhere 😍

    Also have a male and female blackbird who are regulars. He's always very vocal, especially in the morning. I had to google this and it's called the dawn chorus. I'm sure most people probably know that already. 😅 Also have a few Robins I see most days and another little brown/sandy bird but I'm not quite sure exactly what he is. I love watching them though, too. I even say hello to the little blackbird when he comes close (sad, I know) 🙈

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 511 Empowering

    @Holly_Scope I still haven't made up my mind with the hedgehog house. I don't have a disability allowance, but wouldn't mind spending my birthday money on it. And I do a tiny bit of surveys and microtasks online and this week I had a really good earnings. On the other hand, life is expensive and it would be nice to spend it a bit on books. Decisions, decisions, decisions, right?

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,516 Online Community Team
    edited May 22

    Oh absolutely @SmellyBin! It can be really difficult and I suppose with books, it gives you something to do. I've heard of the surveys before but wasn't sure if they were real or not. It's good you're able to make some money off that. 😊

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,700 Championing
    edited May 24

    As the crow flies…revised down to 15 feet from the nest and definitely two chicks.

    What drama from my crow family!

    Yesterday (Friday now) was like any other day; lots of feeding, preening, wings flapping over each other and looking rather crowded while an adult called them on another branch and they stayed put. This morning the nest was empty.

    Later on, I thought I recognised a caw and it was a chick a bit further down the tree calling for help. Suddenly it tumbled right through the branches and leaves while the adult swooped down after it. They continued calling each other for a while..

    • another mention that a newly hatched chick is called a corbillat
  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 3,288 Championing

    Hi @WhatThe I hope the corbillat that had a tumble managed to land safely.

    Have all the crows gone now or do they still visit the nest?

    I hope you are enjoying the lovely weather.

    Take care.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,700 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1127371#Comment_1127371

    It landed on grass but I don't think it managed to get back onto the tree, no 😶

    It was so quiet last night without them. This is London, mind, absolute silence in the early hours as I sat up enjoying the cool rooms. I was thrilled that I'd been able to recognise these birds' calls. I hope they return next year or even for shelter before then. I will miss them as I've really enjoyed my birdwatching.

    Springwatch 2026 starts tomorrow at 8pm - no clash with EastEnders like last time

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 3,288 Championing

    Thanks for the reminder for Springwatch tomorrow.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,700 Championing

    Happy news 😍

    I heard a familiar call and one of my little crows has found a perch a couple of trees along and higher than the nest so it can fly a bit. It is still begging for food and being watched from below by an adult who is calling its mate to lend a hand claw - 6 to 8 loud, rapid caws at a time.

    I've not seen any other crow activity in these trees so I'm sure it's one of the two which disappeared yesterday.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 3,288 Championing

    That is brilliant news @WhatThe I am so glad at least one has survived.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,700 Championing

    Change of circumstances…

    It flew back over to the top of tree#1 and called for ages. It's now in the middle tree, halfway up - neither up nor down - and looks stuck or possibly injured. Both parents were in attendance, one checked the nest and continued to feed it but it's stopped calling for them now.

    They were preparing to fledge and fell out prematurely. Perhaps the chick is just having a rest before trying again 🤞

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,700 Championing

    (easier than editing)

    It's in tree#1 so it knows where home is but the nest is a few feet higher and it's not even trying to move from that spot.

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 3,288 Championing

    Hopefully the parents will know where it is and encourage it to move once it has had a rest. @WhatThe

    Fingers crossed it starts calling again.

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