record of later/subsequent broods - please join in

Hi, following on from the 'young'uns' post, I thought it would be really great if we could see what's happening now with regards to breeding amongs our feathered friends, after what's been a difficult year for the poor things.  With this in mind, could everyone please record any fledgling visits here (with or without pics) - either feeding babes or obvious flangy birds and at the end we can hopefully develop a picture of what's happening across the country.

I will start off with:  This weekend a fledgling blackbird (being fed), several fledgling house sparrows (being fed) from a second brood

Hi Debz, after a shaky start our garden birds are doing well(five miles from Birmingham) we have several young gold and green finches, two fledgling blackbirds, three robins just begining to have red breasts, and the sparrows in the ivy by the back door, there seems to be dozens of them, have fledged several broods and appears to be still feeding in the nest.

I have been watching the House Sparrows closely since May and there have been at least two and possibly three broods. The starlings have also had at least two broods, although it is harder to keep up with the flocking birds as they arrive in such large numbers, trash the garden and then depart. It's like the Sacking of Rome on a daily basis! The robins, dunnocks, blue tits, great tits and wood pigeons have all been in the garden with their offspring at some point or other, but I cannot say with any certainty if they have had more than one brood. I'm based in Mitcham, Surrey in a built up residential area. I will keep looking for new arrivals.

The swallows in our sailing club roof have just started another brood. The female is sitting on eggs and the first brood young have been kicked out. Watch this space or other posts on swallows.

:-)

So far today i've had...

Sparrow feeding a chick

Robin collecting food..(already had at least two different lots of chicks)

Yellowhammer collecting food

and a young Dunnock

ooooooh thanks for the reminder Alan - we had a dunnock babe over the weekend too, although this afternoon a dunnock has taken away cheese (never seen a dunnock eat cheese before) so maybe more in the nest - or we have two pairs!

Lovely pics, as always, Alan - if you get the yellowhammer chicks pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease remember to post them!

oh - also, for the record I am north Greater Manchester on the border with Lancashire!

And thanks for the replies so far folks - it would be really great (and uplifting) to see how successful our wildlife is being.

Debz

Just had a young Dunnock perched on my fence. Can't say for certain that this is a second brood but it's obviously fairly fresh judging by its appearance.

yes lovely and fresh - got to love the flangy, whispy look.......it sits well on so many species, don't you think?  TJ - doesn't need to be second brood, at this stage of the year they are either going to be from a subsequent brood or a late brood (well, most species anyway).  It will be interesting to see which bird is the last to fledge and also where the last fledglings come from (countywise).

Btw - does anybody know why dunnocks have a reddish flange when other birds seem to have yellowish flanges?

Hi Debz, great thread.  We've had a second brood of tree sparrows in the garden.  We still have young blackbirds and robin chicks, also blue tits

and yesterday my missing yellowhammer returned with a chick.  First photo is not so good, quite out of focus, but here it is anyway'

and here's the chick on its own - I'm not sure I'd have recognised it as a yellowhammer if I hadn't seen it with the parent.

And this blackbird obviously has some young mouths to feed!

Recently in the grounds around our flats we have had young Bullfinch,Greenfinch,Blue,Great and Coal Tits and this evening we saw young Blackbird and our single House Martin nest seems very noisy now.On a visit to Saltholme reserve today there seemed to be young of most things but it was the Starlings going from juv. plumage to spotted that most visitors were impressed with,even the non birders there with children were impressed by these birds.

Two young Blackbirds still being fed

Hi Debz, great idea. I love the pictures here too :) Are you recording information from this point onwards or from this year so far?

Hi Lil Wren - Yes, lovely pics, you can't beat seeing little'uns being looked after and taking their first looks around the world, after only seeing a nest and their own little family.  I would say to record from this point, as I would have thought that any feeding/flangy youngsters we see are likely to be from 2nd/3rd broods.  Also I would have thought that it would be difficult to get any sort of time frame for past breeding (other than when folks have pics).  This way it doesn't matter if you don't have your camera, or can't get a decent enough shot (I know some of ours have been feeding in the trees and with the amount of foliage around it's darned difficult to get clear pics), if everyone can just report any new youngsters we should get a really great picture of what's happening.  Pics,  whenever possible, would be great!

The idea is to see which birds are still breeding (and where) and hopefully we can see when each bird stops.  It will also give us an idea as to whether the same picture emerges around the country.  For eg....over the last few days blackbirds, dunnocks and house sparrows are bringing young out of the nest and we have two instances of robins collecting for their young.  Yellowhammers (for those fortunate enough to get them) also seem to be bringing out young.  I can collate all the responses (as could anyone else of course - but I am a bit of a stats freak!) and over the next few weeks, hopefully, we'll be able to pick out what is happening 'everywhere' and what might be anomalies.

I do hope that lots of people will join in - and thanks for all the info and lovely pics so far everyone!

Seaman

 it was the Starlings going from juv. plumage to spotted that most visitors were impressed with,even the non birders there with children were impressed by these birds.

Yes, they're quite freaky looking - last summer was the first summer that we seriously started putting out food (in addition to scraps etc) and we had around 40 young starlings.  We went away at the end of June and came back mid July to a real shock, as lots of the youngsters had developed 2 large semi circles, almost touching in the middle, of dark feathers with spots - we were extremely startled to say the least as we weren't expecting winter coats to start in July!  My mum had very kindly agreed to come up every other day to put out fresh food, but ended up coming twice a day as every time she arrived they were lining the trees and diving down whilst she was still there, still she became quite fond of them and still sends up packets of cheese, sultanas, suet and mealworms most weeks to feed the greedy little beggars!