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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Corona
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2023-05-21, 09:27
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Sleepy Lurker
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nun'yabiznehz
Age: 38
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...Not really my pet, so to speak, but...well...close enough.
Sorry for the long and depressing post, guys, but I'm really bummed out about what happened in my garden. I was looking forward to seeing a new regular. We put peeled arachid seeds and millet grains almost everyday because the parents were tiring themselves out hunting for insects for their brood. All those efforts...wasted. (ノಥ益ಥ)ノ︵┻━┻ >> Imgur album << EDIT: update 2023.05.26 - the parents are back to the nest and, judging by the small branches and moss in their beaks, are very busy rebuilding it, unmistakably in preparation for a new brood. Tits usually lay their eggs twice a year (thrice, even, although that's a rarer achievement) sometime between April and July. Seeing them back after their recent failure is...encouraging, but the bloody magpies are still skulking about the neighborhood and I'm at a loss as to how to make sure the surviving hatchling(s) ---crossing my fingers here!--- can make it to the flight-capable stage without becoming easy snacks mere hours after getting their first look at the outside world. My mother and I are thinking about putting anti-bird netting over and around our fruit trees (next to the hollow pedestal where the nest is), which could give the small tykes some cover, but at the risk of the parents getting accidentally entangled in them.
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2023-07-01, 11:14
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Sleepy Lurker
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nun'yabiznehz
Age: 38
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Follow-on: my garden's tits have returned to their nest despite the previous, gory affair and laid seven eggs, five of which have turned into five healthy-looking soon-to-be-fledglings. This is a much better outcome than I could have hoped for, given the rather sweltering summer we've been having. The parents haven't been as visible as previously, eschewing the sunrays to avoid getting cooked in midair -- thus making me worry (albeit unnecessarily, as it seems) about the chicks being fed regularly and properly.
Imgur folder I have since changed my mind about the birds' identity. The plumage of these tits is much greyer, darker than the so-called mésange charbonnière's (Parus major), leading me to think that I'm actually dealing with family members of the mésange noire (Periparus ater) breed, AKA the coal tit. There are, however, great tits (giggity!) with distinctively blue-yellow-white-black plumage visiting my garden and eating from my birdfeeder - but those are nesting elsewhere. Anyway...less than week before final liftoff. Honestly, I dread that day - read my previous post as to why.
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2023-09-27, 07:59
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Join Date: Sep 2023
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I'm getting really frustrated. I've been attempting to upload a photo for the past half-hour, but it just won't go through. Here's the link instead
https://imageupload.io/RpO2i4804z34HMJ
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