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When I came home tonight I noticed some squeaking and looked up at the roof level,there is an overflow pipe just under the eaves, the hole is a bit bigger than the pipe and a tiny face was looking out.

I stood still and sure enough along came a Mummy bird, perched on the pipe and fed the squeakies through the hole.

I know it sounds silly, but I am not too sure about UK birds but I think it is a blut tit.

I tried to google but was put off by the offer of porn sites that came up first!!!

Does anyone know how long before they fly, the hole is very small??

Now I know why my two cats have been sitting on a bedroom window sill clawing at the windows,

XX Jeannine

Lovely Jeannine. Try the RSPB site, they might be a help in identifying it porn free!

We have had a tragedy here. John found a little one that had fallen out of the hole dead on the path today,and we can't hear any noise from the hole.

John is absolutley inconsolable,I think his Alzeimers has something to do with it cos he has been crying like a child for half an hour.

Would they have been old enough to fly, I hope so but he is saying because this one is so small maybe they are in there and the Mummy has been killed.

It is very small but fully feathered with long claws.

What do you think,

XX Jeannine

All my baby blue tits flew last week, so they are probably winging their way to the slugs on your lottie ;D

cj :)

Aw Jeannine. Poor thing. That one probably wasn't strong enough or got caught by something (cat?) as he was going. Poor John. It is very distressing to see that little tiny life that never made it.
I think they would have been old enough to fly. Shame.  :'(

Thank you, I have told him that and he seems to feel better,does anyone know if they will do a second lot,he is talking about putting something under the hole now XX Jeannine

Did you ever find out what the birds were, house sparrows or blue tits?   If its sparrow than they may have another brood, if its the blue tits then NO.  Shame, we are surrounded by little upsets.  I was forever finding little fledglings dead under my Mums front door roof?  they just fall out their nests.  Shame. 
:'( :'(

Mine have flown and we didn't even see them go. Mind you we are hardly ever there nowadays. Always up the plot.

They were blue tits I am pretty sure, definatley not sparrows.