Help! A cat just destroyed nest - baby robin still

Call the rspb for advice. you shouldn t touch the chick in case the parents are around.

I must admit, i couldnt leave it unless i could see the parents.

best ring for advice asap

Only leave it if you consider it to be safe from other cats etc. The parents won't come near if there is any danger from cats so it's probably a sitting target.

Is there anyway you could lift what's left of the nest up onto something higher up?

The RSPB and RSPCA will always advise you not to touch but if the baby Robin is in danger then that goes out of the window. I would call the RSPCA or see if you have a local wildlife rescue. I can recommend one if you're anywhere near Basingstoke.

Definately call thr RSPB.
Keep us updated please.

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There's only one solution. Get a tent, sleeping bag and flask of coffee and spend the night/s on 24 hour baby robin watch.

How very sad. Is it a tiny baby or has it got feathers?

I have put the nest back in, but it's some kind of creeping weed/vine which covers our garden wall - so I'm not enitrely convinced it's going to be safe ☹️

The bird is a very young baby but does have some feathers. I feel gutted.

I've been watching the parents for a few weeks now, and so clearly has a neighbours cat.

I checked the RSPB site but they are inundated with this kind of situation in Spring so I've followed their online advice.

How is the baby robin?

update please

I hate this time of year as there are two nests in next doors conifers and I just know my cat will do his utmost to kill the babies..

I even got my H to throw away a nest with eggs in, as it was very close to to ground and the little beast would have had them and the mum too!
He came in a few weeks ago with a mum and baby and the poor mum was bleeding all over the kitchen floor while the hysterical baby was flying round and tweeting like mad..

Well, I popped the nest back into the weed/vine thing and sat in the kitchen for over an hour to see if the parents would return, which they didn't appear to do.

I went to bed and when I came down this morning it appears the cat returned, and taken the chick ? I feel terrible about it. I followed the advice on the RSPCA website.

More sadly I saw one of the parents today standing on the garden wall with a worm ready to fly to the nest, it's heartbreaking and has really upset me today☹️

That is the way of things....

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I know.

It's just that I've watched this robin build the nest, and in the last week or so take food back to the chicks. I love cats, and have owned one myself, and would love to own one again, but their impact on the wild bird population is quite bad apparently.

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I know it's what cats do, but it's horrible when you're presented with a half-dead bird that's tweeting in agony..
and the cat is looking very pleased with himself.

I love kittys and I love wee birdies.

But....

The right birdies wouldn't builde nests where naughty kittys could get them.

That's what makes the faster and the smarter live. And the slower and the dafter die.

It's nature.

And yeah, it's yucky when you get a wee thrush deposited on your fireside mat, but that's kitties.

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I have 4 cats and thankfully they only seem to get mice.

I hate to see a bird tweeting in agony after a cat has had it.
I have had to euthanise a few birds like this with a hard smack to the head after my cats have gotten them.
I've been crying whilst getting ready to do it but I know its kinder to put them out of their misery. I couldnt leave them to die in pain slowly.

Large bells on their collars have made the world of difference to them now.

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I know.

It's just that I've watched this robin build the nest, and in the last week or so take food back to the chicks. I love cats, and have owned one myself, and would love to own one again, but their impact on the wild bird population is quite bad apparently.

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I agree completely

Some of my neighbours have 3 or 4 cats each. They decimate the wild birds and it's such a shame.

RIP little robin

quote:Originally posted by Old Nick Esq.
I love kittys and I love wee birdies.

But....

The right birdies wouldn't builde nests where naughty kittys could get them.

That's what makes the faster and the smarter live. And the slower and the dafter die.

It's nature.

And yeah, it's yucky when you get a wee thrush deposited on your fireside mat, but that's kitties.

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Yes, but the number of domestic cats in the UK is very, very high, so the normal balance in nature is adversely affected.

My Mum's cat eats most birds he sees along with squirrels.

Actualy this spring I have seen far more varieties of birds and larger numbers of the other regulars.

Aw, what a shame. At least you did all you could.

In a past job we watched two blackbirds build their nest and watch the little baby birds for weeks. One day one of the babies decided to have a go at flying and fell into a prickly bush and couldn't escape. The parents couldn't get to it and neither could we, it was too dense and sharp. We called the RSPB and the RSPCA and neither of them would come out. We could hear it tweeting for two days, it was awful as we couldn't do a thing to help it.

How sad.? You did what you could kewbride. ?

As Nick says, it is nature, although there do seem to be an awful lot of cats in our neighbourhood lately, and an awful lot of dead birds turning up in our garden. Next door neighbour's cat (who would gleefully maul birds in our garden) experienced the next rung of the food chain when he was eaten by a fox recently. Not nice.

Just read this.

That must have been so sad especially seeing the parents like that?

The robins that I have in my garden flew the nest on sunday all 4 of them, it was quite comical watching them fly round the garden I wish I'd filmed it now. I still see them everday in the the garden.
It's quite amazing that all 4 have survived.

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That must have been so sad especially seeing the parents like that?

The robins that I have in my garden flew the nest on sunday all 4 of them, it was quite comical watching them fly round the garden I wish I'd filmed it now. I still see them everday in the the garden.
It's quite amazing that all 4 have survived.

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Aw, that's lovely that yours survived. I'm still really gutted about what happened. My brother has since suggested that I could have hand reared the baby robin, so I feel even worse now ?