In message , Barry & Iris McCanna
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Leave well alone or you will put off the mother. Your interference
could make her leave the nest completely. You will soon know when
there are babies as the parents will be constantly backwards and
forwards with food, and nest cleaning. The joy will be when they are
fledged and you can watch their first attempts at flying. Not for a
while yet.

The robins here are still sorting their territories out. No obvious
signs of nesting yet. For the last couple of days we've seen as many as
seven robins on the lawn, all at the same time, and watched the
occasional fight. I'd heard that robins can be vicious, but it really
has to be seen to be believed. Is there any way of telling the
difference between male and female robin? Is it only the males who
fight?

We've spotted one tiny birds nest perched all on its own on the tiniest
twigs way out on the end of a long branch of a sycamore tree, about 40
feet up in the air. I'm waiting to see if previous occupants come back
this year as I'm curious to find out who they are.

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Susie Thompson, Isle of Arran
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