Evicting the ‘Spadgers’

Daisy Turnip writes.....

Yesterday, Hubby was chopping back the ivy as it’s usual spring burst of growth had taken it onto the roof – this always causes a little panic in our house, as ivy is a pesky nuisance and can push the tiles off your roof and cause no end of damage to your house.

Hubby got very enthusiastic in hacking back the ivy, so much so that he exposed a bird’s nest - 2 baby ‘spadgers’ tumbled down the ivy onto the drive! I only joined the RSPB a couple of months ago and this certainly wasn’t detailed in our membership information!

Hubby then spent ages chasing the babies and once caught, he put them in a washing bowl and covered it with a rubber car mat and waited for me to come home. He then climbed back up the ladder and put the chicks back in the nest! In the mean time, parent spadgers were going crazy, hoping from the phone line, to the roof, back to the phone line cheaping away at us like crazy.

Latest news, is that they are still all in the nest and didn’t get too wet with the showers we had last night!