Post by rowanberry on Aug 6, 2016 20:44:26 GMT
After weeks of the adult blackbirds being frantically busy feeding their young, and hordes of sparrows mobbing the feeders and young jays screeching back and forth chasing their parents begging for peanuts... it's become strangely quiet.
Yesterday morning I noticed there didn't seem to be as many birds about, and then they seemed to vanish for the rest of the day, (I thought it was because the neighbour's gardener was trimming with a petrol-driven hedge clipper, which was very noisy) but then they never reappeared even after he'd finished.
This morning the blackbirds came only briefly, fed the fledglings a bit and then disappeared again. The sparrow numbers have dwindled, and there was only one jay on the bird table this afternoon.
This happens every summer, once the young ones get old enough to start fending for themselves, but this year it was like they all responded to an invisible signal all at the same time- it's almost eerie how quiet it is out there!
They'd been going through the mealworms at a shocking rate, but I find that I miss them.
I'd become quite attached to the two blackbird fledglings.
Yesterday morning I noticed there didn't seem to be as many birds about, and then they seemed to vanish for the rest of the day, (I thought it was because the neighbour's gardener was trimming with a petrol-driven hedge clipper, which was very noisy) but then they never reappeared even after he'd finished.
This morning the blackbirds came only briefly, fed the fledglings a bit and then disappeared again. The sparrow numbers have dwindled, and there was only one jay on the bird table this afternoon.
This happens every summer, once the young ones get old enough to start fending for themselves, but this year it was like they all responded to an invisible signal all at the same time- it's almost eerie how quiet it is out there!
They'd been going through the mealworms at a shocking rate, but I find that I miss them.
I'd become quite attached to the two blackbird fledglings.
