Abandoned nest
Over the winter I noticed that a song thrush was visiting the garden on a regular basis. We had always had one visit occasionally, but each week recently I recorded it's presence as part of the BTO Garden Bird census. Then I started seeing two in the back garden at the same time. This also coincided by a song thrush singing it repetitive song early in the morning somewhere in or near the back garden. Euonymous varigata. The nest is towards the top. Last week I disturbed a bird from a thick Euonymous bush growing near the fence. It flew away too fast too see what it was. Over the next week or so I kept my eye open and saw a thrush feeding in the garden regularly, and occasionally making a visit the bush. A close up view of the nest through the leaves Last week I had was able to confirm that it was nesting towards the top of the bush. However, over the past 4 days I've not seen it making any visits to the nest. A view of t...