The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: zwartbles on July 14, 2016, 07:19:17 am
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We really look after our wildlife in Norfolk. Special nest sites with satellite TV and broadband.
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Brilliant :roflanim: Although that nest could do with a bit of housekeeping :yuck:
I really love collared doves - so gentle.
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They have an interesting method of nest construction. Lay a few sticks down then sit and s**t on them for a week to form a nice firm bowl :excited: .
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A bit like wattle and daub then 8)
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Also available as a nursery!
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Oh babies :love: Ours only ever seem to have one chick, at least one reaches fledging.
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Or even as a cafeteria!!!!!!!!! :excited:
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Do you have a webcam trained on the nest, to get all these great pics?
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No, I just lean out of the bedroom window!
Chicks mother spends most of the day sitting on the ridge of the roof neglecting them.
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2nd brood now out and about. They breed like rabbits............only higher up :)
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I'm learning a lot from you zwartbles about collared doves. For example I didn't even know they had more than one brood a year. I'm fairly sure the pair we have around have not got more young. There aren't many baby rabbits either ;D
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If you put up bunny boxes-not too high-I'm sure they would help to increase the bunny population.
And you would know exactly where to find them when you wanted bunny pie :excited: .
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we have a pair of homing pigeons nesting in our building and they come back every year, possibly with one more pigeon a time, last years brood I think. So far they have reared only 1-2 chicks between them. We also have a pair of collared doves which come into the garden after I have let hens out, they prance around on top of the hens runs until a sudden movement sends them flying away to the nearest fencepost or telegraph pole :) Personally I love them!
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"Our" pair built three nests before finally settling down to hatch some eggs, but raised three broods of two each time.
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Would you believe it!
Brood three.
Collared Doves are going for world supremacy!!
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Whatever are you feeding those birds? Ours were well satisfied with one baby :thinking:
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I think the predation rate must be very high with newly-fledged collared doves. I regularly have to go and shepherd "ours" from the middle of the lane. We don't have cats but the buzzards are very interested in them.