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Re: Bird house ..........Linda you might like this
« Reply #25 on: July 23, 2007, 09:57:06 AM »
The baby birds!



stella, it would distress me to have something like that on my door/french window.  you must be very tolerant.

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Re: Bird house ..........Linda you might like this
« Reply #26 on: July 23, 2007, 10:24:45 AM »
stella, it would distress me to have something like that on my door/french window.  you must be very tolerant.
It's in a TV room that we aren't in all that much.  The thing I am becoming stressed about though is that I wonder if I should put some kind of cushion under it for when they "push" the baby birds out of the nest  :-\ 
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Re: Bird house ..........Linda you might like this
« Reply #27 on: July 24, 2007, 06:06:54 AM »
Thanks so much for this thread STella... 
Do you know what kind of baby birds they are?  I can't see much from your pix.

I LOVE WILDLIFE
even indoors.

Don't concern yourself with pillows, they will look after themselves, they'll fly.  Leave an outside door and a window or three open.  One might die though.  How many eggs were there and how many fledglings?


I say you're lucky (it's a Russian superstition, a bird in the house means extreme good fortune...

a nest with live babes must be a truly wonderful experience
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« Reply #28 on: July 24, 2007, 06:13:52 AM »
Thanks so much for this thread STella... 
Do you know what kind of baby birds they are?  I can't see much from your pix.

I LOVE WILDLIFE
even indoors.

Don't concern yourself with pillows, they will look after themselves, they'll fly.  Leave an outside door and a window or three open.  One might die though.  How many eggs were there and how many fledglings?


I say you're lucky (it's a Russian superstition, a bird in the house means extreme good fortune...

a nest with live babes must be a truly wonderful experience
xL
The nest is not inside it's outside and suction-cupped to the outside window.  There is plexiglass on the back so we can see inside. 

I don't know how many eggs there were but my husband just said he saw 3 babies and one was looking into the house :) 
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Re: Bird house ..........Linda you might like this
« Reply #29 on: July 24, 2007, 09:27:39 AM »
The nest is not inside it's outside and suction-cupped to the outside window.  There is plexiglass on the back so we can see inside. 

I don't know how many eggs there were but my husband just said he saw 3 babies and one was looking into the house :) 



WATCH THE BIRDIE

STella, what kinda birds are they?  I really wanna know having watched so far...


I'm incredibly impressed, I always meant to do the same thing in my shed.

You've made such a lovely welcome home for them.


are they big, small, what colour are they?

xL
have you given them names yet?

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« Reply #30 on: July 24, 2007, 02:00:05 PM »

WATCH THE BIRDIE

STella, what kinda birds are they?  I really wanna know having watched so far...


I'm incredibly impressed, I always meant to do the same thing in my shed.

You've made such a lovely welcome home for them.


are they big, small, what colour are they?

xL
have you given them names yet?
Oh sorry I forgot to tell you they are wrens.  They're small and kind of a brownish grey and really cute.    Haven't given any names yet!  Will have to think about that....got any ideas?

Some internet pics of wrens:

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Re: Bird house ..........Linda you might like this
« Reply #31 on: July 24, 2007, 03:57:22 PM »
Oh STella, now I'm truly hugely impressed.  Little wrens are perhaps my favourite garden birds.  When they sing, they siiiiiing.  Or trill.



This is a pic of an English garden wren.  They're probably slightly different from yours, but I bet they'll be as gorgeous.  Mine (well, not mine, but the ones who nest every year in my back yard) flit about faster than you can sometimes see them, feeding on insects.  They sometimes sit on the back fence under my honeysuckle for a sec and stick their little tails up.  They are so tiny that I very rarely even see them.  I just hear them.  I googled a mp3 of their song for you but cannot work out how to post it.  You'll already know it anyways, I just wish everyone else could hear it also.  Thrilling.


Don't name them, let them go wild.
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Re: Bird house ..........Linda you might like this
« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2007, 06:04:21 AM »
Yes they have a nice song.

Lot's of activity today:


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« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2007, 06:06:47 AM »
Looking out at the world :)

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« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2007, 03:24:46 PM »
No activity today and when I looked inside everyone was gone.  Later I went to the side of my house and heard wrens chirping in the bushes.  They flew out and it was the whole family, babies and all!   :)

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