"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2013-09-05 21:00:01 +0100, Christina Websell said:

I also didn't notice a blackbird's nest right near my kitchen window in
the buddliea until the day I noticed the female with some food in her
beak. The babies fledged that day.
Duh! and I call myself a birdwatcher..

Tina

I just wonder how long it is before they fly the nest. Every day we wake
up, expecting them to be gone, because they're so large their living
conditions must be very uncomfortable! But while there's a lot of wing
flapping and so forth going on, and one of them hopped out onto a branch
yesterday, they're still in the nest and this morning, mum was feeding
them! This must be the avian equivalent of teenagers emptying the fridge
and leaving wet towels all over the floor before they leave home. I am
*fascinated* that they sit there and watch us through the window and
appear entirely unworried or afraid. Do you know how long it is before
they fly? They appear to be fully fledged. I'll try to get a photo of
them but the overgrowth of the rose makes it very difficult to make a
clear photo of the birds which indicates their distance from our window.
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All pigeon babies look big quite quickly once their feathers have grown.
The parents will feed them for 4 weeks at least (in or out of the nest),
wood pigeons are very good parents.
I'm guessing that yours are around 3 weeks old and will fledge very soon.