Blackbird Chicks - All Gone!

I am sorry to say that we have lost all of the chicks from the blackbird nest in our front garden this week - judging by the mess in the hedge on our next door neighbour’s side, it looks like a cat got them.

The nest was tucked away inside some Leylandii conifers between our front gardens and we even had a job to see it so had thought it was fairly safe. We knew it was there as we’d seen the male blackbird flying into the hedge regularly, firstly with nesting material and then over the last few days every ten minutes or so, with a beak full of worms. The chirping probably gave them away. All that remained was one stone-cold egg which hadn’t hatched, with no trace of the chicks. Such a shame.

Our blackbird is not easily deterred mind, he has another female and another nest in the back garden so has been busy concentrating his efforts on that family since losing the first.