Monday, 23 May 2011

Young birds

The garden is full of birds at the moment and most notable among these are the young birds that are just starting to step out into the big wide world. Some are on their own, but most are still accompanied by an adult which sometimes feeds them, sometimes just looks out for them while they try and work out how to eat a sunflower heart!

The young Great Tits are not the ones from our Sparrow apartment, they are yet to fledge and as yet the Blue Tits are still in their box in the garden. When these young venture out our garden will be crammed full of birds, all eating me out of house and home!

Young Great Tit (Parus major)


Young Blackbird (Turdus merula) Slightly older than the one below




Young Blackbird (Turdus merula)


Young Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) No face markings, but gold wing bars

Young Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

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10 comments:

  1. The Blogger Formerly Known As23 May 2011 at 22:22

    These are great pictures!

    We’ve got baby sparrows in our garden at the minute. And, of course, millions of those quarrelsome starlings with loads of their chicks too (although, one less thanks to our resident rat).

    I’m looking forward to our blackbirds (Ajax and Cassandra) bringing their young to see us now.

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  2. Mustang Sally23 May 2011 at 23:30

    I so enjoy watching little birdlings grow up. The whole process start to finish is only a few weeks long so major steps come so quickly.

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  3. Midmarsh John24 May 2011 at 14:56

    It does seem to be a good breeding year all round.

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  4. ShySongbird24 May 2011 at 14:59

    Lovely photos of the little ones John. Such a busy time for the birds and always an entertaining time for us. I always think how 'naked' the little Goldfinches look :) The bird food disappears as fast as I put it out here!

    I somehow missed commenting on the previous post but did enjoy it. Well done on the Wall Butterfly, I have never seen one.

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  5. John24 May 2011 at 22:00

    Thanks Mask, you are too kind!
    Oh no, I see you have caught the family disease of naming birds! It shouldn`t be too long before you see young Blackbirds, what are you going to call the kids!?
    J

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  6. John24 May 2011 at 22:01

    Hi Sally,
    Yes, it seems almost impossible that some of these birds were an egg not three weeks ago!
    J

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  7. John24 May 2011 at 22:06

    Hi ShySongbird,
    Thankyou. A very frenetic time for the adult birds, but for some it is just the beginning! The young Goldfinch looks like a completely different bird without its facial markings.

    It was my first sighting of a Wall butterfly in the Peterborough area, a very lovely, if underated butterfly!
    J

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  8. John24 May 2011 at 22:07

    Hi John,
    Yes, touch wood, it seems to be quite a good year so far.
    J

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  9. Roy25 May 2011 at 12:07

    Young blackbirds always seem very vulnerable to me John.

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  10. John25 May 2011 at 19:30

    Hi Roy,
    I know, they do look extremely clueless don`t they! I suppose that is why the adults have so many broods to make up for the fact that not many of the young make it to adulthood for one reason or another!
    J

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