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We have a dunnocks’ nest in a fir tree in our garden. There are 2 eggs in it, laid about 3 weeks ago, but the birds are not going to it any more. 2 dunnocks have always been in our garden but never nested before and they are still around. Do you think that it could be a different pair that nested and have been chased away by ‘our’ pair?
Infra-red on nest ref programme Wednesday 6th of June 2012.
Hi Chris
It occurred to me that if the nest material was damp underneath, heat loss would be greater.
However unless rain accumulated there I could not think why it should be wet, do the birds dampen the nest when it is hot?
Kind Regards Tony
It would be fair to call it modern-day trphoy-hunting if the point of a zoo was still purely to show off the animals the aristocracy had collected from around the world. However, zoos are there for conservation purposes, to help the species they contain. They exist to further our understanding of these creatures, and it makes sense to allow people to come in and see them to help fund the research. They’re also keeping the animals away from non-human predators.It’s certainly a fine balance, though, and I do feel a bit of sympathy for Chris Packham’s view. Animals have been becoming extinct long before man even walked this planet, and by artificially extending the lifespans of these creatures (the info boards in Edinburgh Zoo show that these animals all have much greater life expectancies in captivity than in the wild), it can obviously be argued that all we’re doing is interfering with the evolutionary process. But how natural is their extinction in the first place? Is it down to evolutionary cul-de-sacs, or is it down to humans destroying their habitat and hunting them? Even if it is down to them being hunted by humans, is that really so different to any other species hunting another species?It’s not just that pandas are cute, there’s also an element of guilt that it’s our fault they’re dying out. The question is whether you think it should also be our responsibility to save them, or if we just put it down to survival of the fittest. If humans didn’t exist, would the low libido of pandas and their fussy diet end up leading to their extinction anyway? We’ll never know.
Real fan of Springwatch but please please please stop Chris Packham using the term “off of” instead of the word “off” as it’s driving me nuts…
Hi Chris,
I wondered if you could advise me. I have a youngish Fox hanging around my garden all day and sometimes at night and it almost seems tame, it’s constantly looking up to me at my window seems to want nuts to eat which I have been putting out for him as well as other scraps. He/she seems to have something wrong with its back legs as well. it’s a lovely looking animal but it seems strange to me that it’s hanging about all the time.Is this normal?
Thanks for your time.
Sean.
Hello Chris,
I have a question regarding mole hills and their apparent attack by Crows. On two occasions mole hills in the field at the rear of my Bungalow have been attacked by Crows and completely flattened. Is this normal and if so why do the Crows do this.
Avid follower of Spingwatch and cannot wait for Autumwatch.
Regards
Tony Mewburn