on the way there
1 pheasant
and a pilon bird
plus Dafodills
at the barn
In the barn
a man at the barn who works there said he wants to show us something since I’m interested in birds and led us to a hole in the
wall he said a Robin had been nesting and has had some
young and the lady next to me said you can see them through the wall if you look through with a torch and used a torch I told to leave it alone now.
But heres the hole. Theres Young Robins in there.
after that he told us there’s another Robin who’s nesting and had young aswell and then he told us that they put up a barn owl box
and a kestrel is nesting in one of the barns
Yes I asked why there is a Magpie in the cage and also asked why they put food and drink in there. they told me that it would be cruel to keep it in there without food or water cause they usually keep it in there for 15 minutes to half an hour. Occasionally an hour at the longest but usually less often an hour. The Magpie was stressed out so was panicy and restless and couldnt stay still at all and it was hopping back and forth repeatedly comfused and was calling sometimes. so it wasnt really interested in food or drinking water. But aparantly the lady that visits regularly said that it is something that they do on farmland sometimes if a bird is causeing trouble. And said they only put it in the cage on the occasion that the magpies cause trouble when there trying to do one of there jobs in the barn and let them out the cage after they have done the job
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(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Yes luckily l havnt seen it done there again since and that was all the way back last year. People have there own horse there so they visit regularly to look after there horses in the stables. So they know what wildlife they get there. Aparantly the lady that comes with me put a trail cam up at night one year and caught foxes rabbits and deer on the camara aswell as other things aswell. For the day time Robins nesting isn’t a new thing but they now have 2 Robins nesting in the Barn not just one now but at a different part to that Robin. and interestingly when the lady that comes with me visits she puts feed out for one of the horses and the house sparrows dive strait for it whenever she puts it out for the horse she thinks they like eating the hay
Should anyone like to talk about that further here is the link that was being referred to I don’t mind anyone discussing what happened last year on this thread but only this thread cause that thread is relevant community.rspb.org.uk/.../barn-at-frocester-hill-today
Please keep this thread about my day at frocester hill today and the wildlife iv seen I don’t want to be talking about things that arnt to do with when I went to frocester hill on the date of this thread with the sparrows and birth of robins and what not it will be nice to have a discussion about my day and the wildlife iv seen and keep things positive on this current thread. It rained but I didn’t let that stop enjoying my trip. I went in the barn watched some sparrows and found out robins have had some Young and there is now 2 Robins nesting not just one aswell which wasn’t the case originally
I wanted a nice discussion about my day and have visited to see the barn swallows multiple times with in which one trip was very nice cause I saw some really nice insects on the flowers and I saw a buzzard too that day. It was nice watching the barn swallows fly around. as for this current thread I didn’t write everything I did that day wildlife wise so I would like to have a nice discussion about my day There just like everyone else usually does on there threads. It was a very nice day in spite of the weather and lots of nice things happened when I was there I didn’t just look at the sparrows. i watched them for a long time and watched them dive down into the horse feed and didn’t just get shown that they now have 2 Robins and have had young which was good news by the way and then just leave to go back either. so comments welcome
No you don’t have to deleate your replys I just would like to also talk about nice things about my trip cause it wasn’t all bad it was actually a very nice trip