Springwatch highlights: Mon 7th June

The wrens fledging, and Simon getting so wet for once!



Looking forward to tonight :)



oh, and if you get a chance, maybe someone could mention the awful thing linked below from the Farnes' warden blog. How anyone could behave like that I just do not know.

https://farnephoto.blogspot.com/

I was particularly interested in your programme about perigrines. A couple of years ago I photograped one sitting on a pavement in a residential area devouring a pigeon. I still have the photos. Another wonderful sight I have witnessed here in Devon is a white stag, so enchating and magical and something I will never forget

Re Monday 7 June - whilst watching Martin with the peregrine chicks my husband noticed a ringed foot in the nest. we wondered if the ring had been identified and which bird had once been attached to the foot. And our cat Smokey loved Simon with the skylarks. She's 14 and not very active but ran across the room to jump up to the tv cabinet to try and catch one. She has been watching the re-runs online. Just to complete our family Katy our dog very much enjoyed seeing the badgers and is hoping for more black & white or night vision shots. :)

At the weekend Simon mentioned that the Adonis Blue butterfly male's blue was caused by reflection. Is this similar to the kingfisher blue, as their real colour is grey and they reflect brilliant blue. Is there no natural blue in nature?

Swallows nests & bugs LOTS OF EM!! The swallows had nested in our barn and left for warmer climes.

I reached up to the nest just to see if all the eggs had hatched or not, sometimes there's one left, infertile.

Instantly my hand turned red with 'tiny bugs' and seconds later they were up my arm and just a few seconds later I was in the bath !!

They got absolutely everywhere. Sadly Chris I didn't save you any !

Colin Smale. Lincolnshire.

Swallows are nesting in my front porch for the second year. The eggs have just hatched today and there are four chicks. When I open the front door the mummy swallow is sitting on the nest, you can almost touch her. Last year they also raised four chicks.

hi can any one help iv got a small garden a small pond and bird feeders and all i get in the garden is woods and mags no small birds can you help plz

We also have a small garden & small pond, this year has been spectacular, lots of fish, teeming with greater crested newts & lots of frogs. We too have mags, but also blackbirds, blue tits, sparrows & the odd thrush. All I can say is try changing the bird food, we just ask the local market trader for different types of food to attract different birds, it has seemed to work for the last couple of years. I have put the bird feeder next to the pond, so the babies can feed while mum is having a bath, also there's a tray for water.

I also play the springwatch download for the blackbird song (in my kitchen) I was amazed when Mr Blackbird sat on the patio outside to listen!

Hi



Having watched SW over the last few nights I realised that I saw a female Sparrow Hawk last month.



She flew over our back fence swooped down and banked right just above the ground a few feet infront of me and flew up and out of the garden.



What is the range from the nest they hunt in is she local? Do they regularly hunt the same places?



Could she take out a medium sized rabbit as we have 2 that are always out in the garden during the day?

We love having birds visit our bird feeders - whole families of blue tits and robins gorge themselves every day.



Sadly, their food is being devoured by squirrels who jump over 7 ft from a fence onto the bird feeders, beating our squirrel proof defences!



How far can squirrels jump?



All we want to do is provide our birds with some food!!

no small birds come in to my garden just big birds woods and mags WHY is that got a small pond feeders round the garden theres big trees at the back of me i have even put a web cam up thay fly past over the garden what am i doing that the prob ? HELLP