Tits Population

They’re back! ……..and looking great – the Tit population at my home in West Sussex has suddenly exploded – great numbers and great variety – I have had Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, ...

Starling Gangs

Oh No! (says David Cole, a long time Twootz customer and wildlife photographer). Towards the end of June each year the starlings arrive – parents with masses of squabbling adolescence youngsters. ...

Where Have All the Blue Tits Gone?

So where have all the Blue Tits gone? At this time of the year I often have friends asking me where all of the Blue Tits have gone. There were throngs of them just a couple of months ago, but no ...

Great Spotted Woodpeckers

A total of seven Great Spotted Woodpeckers are dominating activity on my main feeding station. They are from two families – one to the north and the other to the south of my home and they are causin ...

Pheasant

Percy’s Back !!!! Every year when the shooting season finishes a fine cock pheasant appears at my feeding station. He is certainly not he same one that I noticed and fed by hand some twelve years ...

Fledglings

Date: 2014-06-03 09:46:24 | Category: Bird Protection | Author: Neill Hunt
My local vet / friend gave me a quick call yesterday to go and identify a recently fledged bird that someone had taken into the practice. As you can see the 'baby' in question was a young Blackbird.

Fledgling


He was given the exact location of the 'pickup' so we ventured down and released it, within 5 minutes of the youngster calling the adult female was at its side with a big juicy worm!

Fledgling


Please, if you come across recently fledged birds leave them alone, 99.9% of the time the adults won't be far away. If you feel the youngster is in huge danger (sat at the side of a busy road for example) you could move it back into cover very close to were you find it.

Fledgling


Please, please, please do not take home or to the vet, there is very little they can do.