I’ve got a couple of Housemartin nests under the eaves of my house. The birds come back every year and nest in the same place and usually make a wee extension on the old nest. It’s a real pleasure listening to the young birds and watching the parents swooping around with food for them.

So, cut to half an hour ago I’ve found five chicks all laying on the patio below the nest. Little pink featherless corpses 🙁 The nest looks undamaged and for now no sign of the parents.

Anyone ornithological types on here know what could possibly have happened?

D.

Let me think for a minute….

Five get over excited?

Did the five get over excited?

Edit, beaten by 7 seconds!

Christ, for a moment I thought Paul Heaton had died!

Benefit cuts in action

Baby Robins did it.

They’re evil.

Patio 5 Nest 0

Parents got disturbed and killed them? Cuckoo chick in there? Mammal got in marten weasel etc. Magpie attack? Could be anything, nature innit.

They were trying a stunt to gain YouTube fame and it went wrong.

Budgie jumping?

Happy Hour again?

Free fall parrot shooting?

perchypanther – Member
Budgie jumping?

nice.

News like this is difficult to swallow.

Hope they had a swift end.

Why don’t you email the RSPB instead of asking a bunch of batty cyclists?

Are you up north? Or in the beau.. no, I can’t.

batty cyclist

Probably one tried to fledge, and once one had the rest will have blindly followed.

It’s sheep we’re up against.

Nature innit. Parents will probably have another brood

there were five in the bed, and the diminutive bastard said…

Nature innit. Parents will probably have another brood

This ^

jekkyl – Member
Happy Hour again?

– we are in the presence of a comic genius
😀

christ, for a moment I thought hoped Paul Heaton had died!

Oooh look – Coed-y-Brenin guys! Mmmmmmmmmm

Sometimes things just…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDVxTSnxE8[/video]

Jeremy Corbyn.

Brexit

Nexit.

Probably one tried to fledge, and once one had the rest will have blindly followed.

A caravan of fluff?

My suspicions point at sparrows. We had a similar thing with a nest of blue tits whose fledglings ended up in the road below, to the joy of the neighbour’s cat. A sparrow was harassing the parents and pulling nest material out. There wasn’t anything the parents could do to stop it.

Gravity , it sucks.

The downside to gravity

martinhutch – Member 

Probably one tried to fledge, and once one had the rest will have blindly followed.

A caravan of fluff?
We have a winner