I thought all was well with our boxes - Box 1 has fledged Tree Sparrows, Box 3 has Great Tits still sitting, Box 5 has had Blue Tits feeding chicks that is until Sunday. On Sunday morning we noticed that the adults seemed to have disappeared and the chicks were very vocal and trying to clamber out the box, we went out for a couple of hours and on our return we could hear that the chicks had left the box and were up in a nearby Yew Tree or so we thought. On walking down the garden we found 5 chicks all on the ground unable to fly and with no parents in sight. We waited over an hour but no happy ending I'm afraid - we tried to find caterpillars to attempt to feed them but it was a lost cause. The adults never appeared and the box is completely empty with no sign of any chicks.
We have had a Sparrowhawk hunting through the garden and I'm sure he had one of our Blackbird chicks but could he have taken both our Blue Tits in such a short space of time? On a happier note we now have a Pied Wagtail nest in the front garden so fingers crossed....
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