Turf War

[carolegif]

There's a fight for territory in my garden! We have large bay tree that was home to two pigeons then last year two magpies also took up residence too. This morning two jays have also decided to set up home in the same tree, so I now have a three way battle as to who lives there.
It is actually big enough to house all if them, but they obviously gave other ideas.

[wolf63]

They can be quite noisy. When my cats were younger the pigeons and gulls used to fly around outside the flat windows and on our roof. The cats would go crazy, Frankie was obsessed with them.

It is easy to think of nature as all pink and fluffy but for the animals who have to survive it is a dangerous world.

My moggies are snoozing/snoring peacefully in their furry lined cardboard boxes - it is a hard life being an non-human.

[Tilly2]

I hope they sort it out eventually. My money's on the Magpies.

In my garden the Jay and the Greater Spotted Woodpecker are constantly battling over the peanut feeder. The woodpecker seems to win each time. He's a nasty piece of work but very beautiful.

[Prudie]

How lovely for you to have Jays, they are so beautiful.
I heard a sickening thud on my front window this afternoon and when I looked a blackcap was convulsing on the bench under the window. I felt so awful. I went out and gently put it under a bush. I kept an eye on it and it didn't move for a couple of hours although was clearly alive. As it got dark I went out to put it up somewhere safer from cats and as I approached it took off and flew up and away. I was so pleased.

[Tilly2]

A happy ending, Prudie.

[Chipchopper]

Out of the three, I would agree that the magpies may win, as they are the more aggressive and more adaptable.

I'd rather see the jays win but they shouldn't rest on their laurels (pun intended) :-)

[Tilly2]

Very clever, Chip!

[carolegif]

We constantly have pigeons and blackbirds flying into the windows, usually just after the window cleaners have been! They usually survive, but one pigeon did not survive a couple of weeks ago.

[carolegif]

After a few days of fighting, all three pairs are now nesting in the tree, with the pigeons spending most of the day in the silver birch (or on the decking if the boiler is on - they like the warm air blowing across!).
Two sets if blackbirds are in the laurel.