Watch out, ducklings about …
It’s that time of year when mother ducks lead their ducklings to water, sometimes across busy roads. So over keep an eye out for mother duck and her young crossing the roads.
‘Abandoned’ baby birds.
Please leave ‘abandoned’ baby birds alone. If you find a young bird out of its nest it is probably a fledgling.
Young garden birds usually leave the nest about two weeks after hatching – just before they can fly. They will have grown all or most of their feathers, are very mobile and can walk, run and hop onto low branches.
Fledglings are fed by their parents – the parents are rarely far away and are probably collecting food. However, they will not return to the fledglings until you have gone.