A pair of Eastern bluebirds were being harassed by a pair of swallows or a pair and additional more. Eastern Bluebirds were alarmed and tried to avoid big fight. But finally male had to go on toes to toes fight, pinning swallow to the ground and in the vegetation (which I could not film as they were too fast tumbling around), but you may see a flash of blue in the grass during their fight.
I have 2 adult cockatiels, one male and one female. They mated and hatched 3 eggs. The mother will continue to sit on all her eggs, and the male will sit on his bunch of eggs, but every time one hatched, the mother pushed the baby out of the nest and won’t care for it no matter what I do. The first one and the third one died, so I’m caring for the second one myself. I have a nest in a box, a heat lamp and I’m feeding it every 1-2 hours with baby bird formula in a tiny dropper. It’s been doing just fine for about 4 days, it’s growing, getting stronger and eating the formula easier. My main concern about it is every time I feed it, it swallows a large amount of air and sits in it’s crop for a little while and makes a large bubble in the crop. It says on the formula container to feed the baby till it’s crop is filled with formula, but it gets half filled with air and half with formula. When it gets filled with air I’m afraid to feed it any more because I don’t know how much it’s little crop can hold. Is this air swallowing thing normal? Should I feed it more when it does that or keep doing what I’m doing? What should I do???
Urgent Help needed. A nest with baby swallows has broken at the front of my house. The babies have feathers – I think they are fleglings. The parents are very distressed and were flying around for a while but I can’t see them now. I put the babies in a box on a windowsill as close to the place where the nest is as possible but will the parent recognise them. Should I put the babies on the ground outside. I’ve gone around all the websites I can and the information is mostly about baby birds falling out of nests. This nest has broken so what should I do????
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I do maintenance at an apartment complex and this has become a project, I tried building boxes uses finish trim pieces and 2 x 4′s, but these mud swallows are so persistent and protected so it has to be humane and like I said most importanly still look good.
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i’d like to hear from anyone in Washington Oregon area who is trying to attract these birds to reduce the insects for their horses. Particularly flies and mosquitoes. I saw 8 and 10 room swallow houses for about $100.00.
but the martin houses were $30.00 for only one nest box.
Any cheaper ways??
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Robins live in a variety of habitats, as they have been known to nest right on houses, in the middle of cities and even on the grounds of Alaska. Find out how robins live withhelpful information from an Audubon Society member in this free video on wild birds. Expert: Wayne R. Petersen Contact: www.massaudubon.org Bio: Wayne R. Petersen is director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas (IBA) program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
This Swallows nest with the chicks being feed by their parents was located just 5km from Sydney center, I had left the sound track as original as possible repeating the sound only were the SLOW motion was used please enjoy.
