In mid February I posed a question “Will These Sticks Make a Nest?” with doubts about the whole thing staying put.
This is one of my images from that post showing the scrawny nest and poor housing support.
I’ve been back a couple times since then and seen the parents had built the nest up quite a bit and two chicks had hatched.
I finally got some decent images this week.
There was just the one chick. Most of the other GBH chicks in nearby nests have fledged. Sometimes the young will return to the nest even after they are feeding themselves, probably for familiarity.
If this one hasn’t flown he will soon as the parents stop bringing food at some point and he’ll have no choice.
It´s always one stick at the time, but the nesting place is a little bit scary to me. In my hometown the commen grey heron builds i pine trees.
It is often amazing the skimpy locations a bird will pick. A pine tree with sturdy boughs sounds like a good plan!
That looks so precarious, amazed they’ve raised a young ‘un after all!
That’s what I thought, Liz. I would not have been surprised to find the whole thing gone when I went back. Probably a fall storm will knock it down.