Redpoll Breeding

[cantona 310]

I have a pair of redpoll that are paired up,cock bird singing and hen flying round with neting material , but no nest been built yet, is it getting a bit late for a first nest build?

[HPR 1,161]

Where you put the nest pan i used to put on the wire on the front of me double breeder they seem to prefere it same as siskins that what I found any way

[fireman 11,362]

No and it's only this week mine have started to build or carry a lot more nesting stuff about but tobe honest with this rain and the coolness that will come with it i wouldn't be suprised if they take another week or two to get it together properly.

[mule1943 291]

hope its not to late ,mine have not started nesting yet

[Millet 4,497]

All my bird's are slow to start this year.. out of 4 Goldfinch hen's only one has a nest and egg's and my Greenfinch pair only have half a nest built..

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

I was talking to a disgustingly experienced bloke, only last night. He said the wild birds are doing sod all, yet. And, I must say, checking twenty of my starling boxes showed me four were active. sixteen had bits of stuff in them.

 

So, the birds are there. They're entering the boxes. They just can't (or won't) get it together to go down yet.

 

He reckons it's the weather. Feels we're in for murder with the mites too. No frost to knock them down.