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nesting goose
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Canadian goose, goose, nest, Spring, University of Warwick on June 1, 2016 by xi'an
Ex-neighbours
Posted in pictures, University life with tags blackbird, CREST, nest on May 19, 2011 by xi'an
The four blackbird younglings that hatched not even two weeks ago are now gone! I am amazed at how fast they turned into birds. Of course, Pierre, Robin and I evoked the alternative hypothesis that the fours of them fell from the nest, but could not find evidence on the ground two stories below. Maybe the nest will get recycled next year, by a blackbird or by another species, if no one at CREST decides first it is a fire hazard and takes it away!
New neighbours
Posted in pictures with tags blackbird, chick, nest, office on May 8, 2011 by xi'anNext to my office in Crest, a blackbird built a nest a few weeks ago and the four chicks were born over the previous weekend! Here they are, in a poor quality picture due partly to the window pane between the nest and the corridor and partly to my lack of skill.
The mother keeps feeding the chicks, but seems disrupted by any passerby it sees in the corridor… presumably obeying an atavistic rule to keep away from the nest while there are potential predators around. If it finds enough food around, and does not die from stress, the chicks should grow up very fast to young adults!
(Three bird-related posts in a row, maybe I should start a new category!)
