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Dad helps out
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 12 Jul 2014 11:42 |
I don't know exactly why the avocado skin is bad for birds but I have been told this several times. Here avocado trees are grown in abundance and birds hardly ever peck at the fruit whilst it is on the tree. They have always spit out the peel to get to the flesh when attacking my fruit bowl as if they knew it wasn't good for them or they just don't like the skin. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 12 Jul 2014 03:14 |
Mine just get the last little bits of flesh from the half skins I put out but I didn't know the skins were bad for them, why is that Wendy? |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 11 Jul 2014 09:57 |
I do give them avocados, which I buy specially for them, and they are gone in no time. The skin is actually very bad for them but they have flown in my kitchen, onto the fruit bowl and pecked the skin and spat it out all over the floor in order to get to the inside. I now keep them in the fridge. (The avocados not the birds!) |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 11 Jul 2014 09:20 |
They love all fruits Wendy, I put out an avocado skin earlier and believe me, I don't leave a lot in it as I love them. Father Blackbird was there cleaning it out and picking the bits of some peach stones too |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 11 Jul 2014 08:34 |
The lampshade is almost clean with the help of the Spanish version of a Magic Eraser. Which I think are really good except for the fact that they disintegrate very quickly. |
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UzziAndHerDogs | Report | 11 Jul 2014 01:06 |
Well done Liz xx |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 11 Jul 2014 00:41 |
Our blackbirds love bananas, as I do, but sometimes they all go ripe at once and I can't eat each and every one so the birds get a share. They strip every bit of them from the skins and then I put the skins on the roses so nothing goes to waste. I even put out peach and nectarine stones and they pick them clean and some pineapple that was going a bit 'winey' was soon gone. (it was a tub of chopped fresh pineapple from the supermarket reduced to 20p but I hadn't eaten it all and it got pushed to the back of the fridge by a certain person who doesn't like it) We have about 5 young blackbirds now but they can all fly, just a bit lazy and keep asking Dad for food, he's letting them get on with it now tho. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 Jul 2014 15:13 |
Oh dear Wendy, that might be difficult. They do that when they panic, Baby blackbirds are out of the nest before they can fly, they then spend a few days being fed on the ground. We haven't had any in the garden this year, when we have before we have made a perch for them in a safeish place. They usually use it. At least you don't have many cats. |
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Tenerife Sun | Report | 10 Jul 2014 12:41 |
I have a baby blackbird tweeting away on the terrace as I type. This is the second lot of babies this year I've never known them born so late before. There were two babies but one has disappeared I just hope it's okay. Judging from the development of the one that's still here I don't think it would have been able to fly away. No tail feathers yet and it just flaps about without any fear of danger. Mum hops about with the baby, feeding it and trying to encourage it to fly. They are both quite tame. |
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Mayfield | Report | 10 Jul 2014 10:57 |
Yes the blackbirds in our garden wait till the food is put out for the tortoises and then mug them for the pears and banana! |
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Battenburg | Report | 10 Jul 2014 04:45 |
Well done you Try giving her some mashed fruit. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 10 Jul 2014 03:03 |
Well our bird with the problem is still about and as elusive as ever, especially now she seems to have gained the strength to fly. She is eating and drinking and seems to be improving in mobility so I hope she will be ok without further intervention and will be a happy blackbird. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 6 Jul 2014 05:41 |
Morning all. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 5 Jul 2014 15:11 |
Funnily enough I also watched a male blackbird feeding a baby this morning and wondered where Mum bird was and if there were more babies around. I'm now hoping my female bird was busy with a new nest. Hope your Mrs Blackbird survives OK Liz |
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AnninGlos | Report | 5 Jul 2014 14:21 |
Hope mum survives. The male (father) blackbird does often help to feed the young. Sometimes this is because Mum has gone off and is building another nest as they nest more than once. But obviously this is not the case here. |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 5 Jul 2014 11:57 |
All our feathered friends need a helping hand now and again. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 5 Jul 2014 11:33 |
We have an oyster catcher that nests on the roof of my workplace. |
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Dermot | Report | 5 Jul 2014 10:20 |
We should contemplate the many things that we take for granted - a little human help along the way is great. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 5 Jul 2014 07:08 |
That's what I plan to do Sue. I have seen Mum out again feeding the young ones, she filled her beak for the umpteenth time with the moist bread (it will get moister now as it's raining) and with the last beakful looked round for the young ones and they had flown off. She tried several times to fly but couldn't get lift off, her wings don't seem to flap hard enough. She is now under a planter in the garden, and I have put some food nearby. I will look out later and see where she is, but from past experience I would rather get her contained first before I phone rather than they come over and then we can't find her. They are only a small charity. It may be that she just needs some rest. |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 5 Jul 2014 06:39 |
Good for the Dad. |