I don't think he would have uploaded the video if that was the outcome. So relax and enjoy. In the future if you see the '"Adviser Disclaimer" at the beginning of a video then you know not to watch.
I did hear one or two distress calls from the parent birds when the cats were there, but overall it sounded and looked like it was ok in the end. An update from the person who filmed would be helpful. Edit: it seems the birds fledged fine later that day, the poster did leave a message about the birds wellbeing so spot on for me.
@@Eleventhearlofmars _"it seems the birds fledged fine later that day"_ They fledged before this video was taken, otherwise they wouldn't have been out of the nest. ;)
I know this is old and you mean well but keep your cats away! Bloody hell the worst predator for a baby bird and your letting two of them go near a stressed out bird. I wouldnt of been surprised if they had of abandoned it based it being too dangerous to attempt to feed it.
There are plenty of livestream here on YT about tits nesting- it’s astonishing how much work it is for the bird parents to raise their young ones. It’s a tragedy when these birds are killed by a cat, just because the cat is bored and needs some distraction. Cats and birds should just be kept away from each other, there is nothing, absolutely nothing cute about cats who are interested in birds.
Dear Sir, every minute the cats were nearby, are minutes, when the parents BlueTits didn't feed the baby fledgling. Plus, these babies must have fledged too early, their plumage is too short, their tails are too short, they can hardly fly and they need constant feeding and sleeping. The nestbox must have been too shallow. It must be much deeper, so that chicks can only fledge when they are more developed and fully ready for living outside. These nestlings stayed mostly on the ground, instead they should be flying easily in the trees, if they fledged not so prematurely.. So I do need to give you two advices, dear friend. 1. Make a deeper nesting box, so the chicks can only fledge then they are fully ready (21st day), so they cannot fledge by accident. This means that the hole must be high above the floor and the nest cup inside (at least 20-30 centimeters or 10-12 inches); and 2. Please always keep the kittens/cats inside when nesting season. Little chicks need to be fed every 30 minutes. A cat around, even if it is very friendly, scares mom and dad, and they cannot feed the chick on schedule. Fledglings are fed by the parents for at least 2-3 more weeks outside the nest. So each missed feeding, means the chick is losing weigth, starving, getting weaker, etc. I am not blaming you, I do not mean anything bad. We all make mistakes and learn from them. The video is not bad, and I hope the chick has grown up and has made it, even though the dangers it has been through. Thanks. Cheers! PS. Technically - good camera work, good focus, good quality.
Oh, no! NEVER leave a cat near a bird! This could be fatal and tragic for the bird. It's not the cat's fault, it's its nature. But as a human being who takes care of birds, you always need to bear this in mind.
Blue Tits currently nesting in our garden and my curiosity of what the chirping chicks look like is what brought me across this delightful video recording. We also have a British Shorthair and so can fully appreciate the gentleness of the two that feature here alongside the fledglings. Just adorable - thank you so much for sharing.
Here's a slightly different perspective: By letting the chicks get used to having a 'friendly' cat around, they are less likely to survive their next encounter with an UNfriendly cat... because they'll be more inclined to trust it. Never forget that our actions, even the smallest ones, can have repercussions beyond our immediate knowledge or understanding. Cats are non-native. They are invasive. They kill wild native populations of all sorts of birds and mammals, and if you keep cats as pets, they should not be allowed to free-roam. Period. It's time we collectively dumped the antiquated belief that cats don't belong on leashes, and start taking responsibility for the impact our choices have on the environment. Thanks for reading.
It's a well shot video, but I read your piece, in response to previous comments, and what you obviously fail to realise is that what you are doing here is teaching these fledglings that cats are no danger to them. Your cats might mean them no harm, but by your own admission, other cats (like your neighbour's) would kill them instantly. Throughout this video you can hear the parent bird's alarm calls, but the fledglings are to young to know better. From this moment onwards, these fledglings will think of cats as being no threat to them. This was a really bad idea!
Sadistic 🙄🤮😡 cats have deadly bacteria in their saliva and claws that can kill a bird just by being touched. Not to mention the fright the chicks and parents lived and wrongly teaching them not to run from predators 🙄
Cute little buggers but why do you let your cats get close to them? Your cat is funny but i wouldnt trust it myself, because cats are predators. Well im glad nothing bad happened to these beauty's
Lovely video of the fledgling, but why oh why let two cats harass it, and even film it? Poor thing is not a plaything for cats, at any second that baby could have been killed.
no wonder they didn't show it. The baby blue tit was terribly stressed and was being harrassed by two cats. You may not have found it particularly worrying but you had no guarantee that your cats, nice though they may be, would not have unintentionally accidentally harmed that baby bird. It looks like baiting. The bird was so stressed that it had to put it's head under its' wing because it was so tired from the stress you put it under. I'm not at all surprised that this was not shown. Most cats that other people have would not react like that and even picking the bird up out of curiosity which the cats may well have done if left alone with the bird long enough, would kill it. Cat saliva is toxic to birds and even a scratch from a claw will kill a bird if it is not given antibiotics.
what a strange video. I can't honestly say I enjoyed it except the early bit. I loved those early pics, especially with a sweet looking cat BEHIND a door in the kitchen. I can see why you thought it ok for the cats to be filmed with the chicks, looked cute etc and you obviously love them (and care about birds). But as others have said, distressing to watch, (although some comments have been positive). Just goes to show how diverse humans are! You have had some strong (and offensive) comments. It's amazing what people will say online. But cats and birds co-existing? Not really. The chicks had to put up with a lot, but maybe they were saved from the neighbours cats. What a precarious world birds live in, no wonder many species are in decline.
The video is well filmed but I peronally don't like the idea that the chicks were getting accustomed to the idea that hanging out with cats was perfectly safe.
It was a nice vid...until the cats came out...was it really necessary to let your cats out? I think the BBC didn't want to use your vid bcz they didn't want to send the wrong message to viewers: bring our cats out when there are wild baby birds and there parents around your garden. Maybe that's why, as that;s not the right thing to do.....
Y did she bring out the cats @ the cannot fly ,that is very mean of u lady supposed the did eat them ,when I c the cats I was so frightened my head start spinning OMG, that is very mean of u😭😭😭😭😨😨😨
Mrculps, I believe wholeheartedly that you never meant harm to these birds, and until the cats make their entrance this is beautiful footage. I really enjoyed watching it. I also totally agree with you that not all 'assumed' enemies will act to stereotype. But... I think you're missing the point as to why people get upset about this video. The point is, you were taking the risk. One of the cats was actually in stalking mode, and while it only played with the chick, at any moment it could have suddenly struck with its claws out or gone to bite the chick and you may not have been able to stop it happening. I don't think everyone is assuming the cats will definitely attack, but we all know that cats cause devastating losses to our song birds every year, and I hope that most people, on finding fledglings in this position would have not wanted to take the same risk that you did. Had one of the chicks been hurt, I'm sure you would have been really upset and it obviously wouldn't have been intentional, but it would have been avoidable - and that is the point. Hopefully you would act differently if in the same situation again. There is some beautiful footage like I said (before the cats), so thank you for that... :) A few people have made this very same point, so I hope you understand what we're trying to say now... :)
Absolutely appalling that you let cats so near them! They are confused and terrified when they leave the nest, and they beg for parents attention and to reassure them and you just let them get even more terrified. And how do you think parents felt seeing a cat around their babies??? Terrible!
I understand that you trust your cats, I do, but I think the key issue here is, the baby is very impressionable and if it doesn't have to fear your cats, it wouldn't know to fear others. Also, all the time your cat was there, the parents would be stressing about their baby and unable to feed it. Baby blues tits need around 100 feeds per day, whilst they're still fed by their parents and the time the cat took away from the baby, could have been damaging and a waste of valuable time, energy and resources by the parents. At the end of the video, you could hear the adult bird, giving a stress signal. You were inadvertently beng seriously cruel and watching the chick, face to face with a cat, did you notice it's chest. You shouldn't be able to see a bird breathing like that, you probably helped enormously, by shortening it's already short life. This is not meant to be a nasty comment, I honestly believe you had no idea what anguish you were inflicting on this poor bird family.
This time of the year (May and June) I'm on tit patrol in the garden. Always get a few that fledge and crash land in the back garden, then attract next doors cats, so as soon as I see the cat(s) in my garden I know there's a fledgling out there somewhere and the cat's get shooed out and then I try and spend the day watching out for the baby tits. Lost a few to the cats but also helped a few to gain strength and fly up into the trees.
two helpers? ummmm cats eat baby birds when given the chance. Those baby birds were shaking in fear :( why did you let those cats out? Anyone else waiting for baby bird to turn into dinner?
Thank you for sharing .. I am sorry you didn't receive a response from the BBC .. they could have at the very least offered encouragement and perhaps said why it wasn.t appropriate footage for them at that time... we really enjoyed it .. thank you again
Poor 🐦 😭😭😭😭😭 bad people!!! Bad cats !!!! Special the gray fat 🐱 Is not fear dor rhe 🐦 🐦!!! You like in the school rhe big one child hit your small child? Karma is coming !
This video shows how not to involve with little birds in your garden. He lets his cats get in touch with the young birds. The young birds and the parent are obviously stressed. You can here the parents giving alarm signals. They are very stressed. Also the filmer picks up the little birds for no reason other then the filmer his own interest. People watching this film can get a very wrong idea how to deal with these birds.
At the end of the day nature won. However don't mind whether BBC uses it or not. We all loved this so much so many of my friends and relatives. Thanks once again and very mature and beautiful photography. Had you not posted the same in YT you could have send the same in NG.
even if your cat is well behaved... cat claws can contain a lot of bacteria, and even a light graze from a cat can cause a fatal infection for tiny animals like this. responsible pet owners who own both well mannered cats and small birds or rodents know to prevent any contact between them. irresponsible owners usually allow it becuase of the disbelief that the two animals can "get along". and theirs many owners who carry the "my pets are special" to blanket carelessness. its different to google "bird and cat co-exsisting" and "can birds and cats co-exsist?" and seeing how clearly their needs to be no physical contact between the two animals in order for them to be under the same home.
how about an update? im guessing because the cats were let out and the parents saw the cats at some point, the fledglings were possibly abandoned, and id have been supprised if 1 of the 2 left int he garden would have survived anyway, not to mention even if the fledglings did fine, now they may be less curious of cats and will probably end up as cat food because of that, even very well fed cats will kill out of sport, my parents cat the kindest cutest cat, fed extremely well, would kill anything in the garden purely for fun, and they didnt (and still dont) have a bird table or feeders, though the cat died of old age a few years ago.
Amazing that the cats don't hurt them, the big problem is......its important that the birds are naturally scared of cats, one day they will trust the wrong cat and will unfortunately get their heads bitten off.
Thanks for your comment, I have been wondering the same really. I should get more people to mention it on Facebook or Twitter and see if that gets more hits.
You have to learn why "branchlings" could not fly and must feeded by parents all the time and if cats in the near they didn't feeding! That's a judgment of death.
wow that was a amazing video loved it and the cats were fantastic they were kind of looking after them wot a beautiful video to watch thank you for filming x
This is rather silly. The parents would have been in full on panic having just you preventing them from coming down into the garden. But cats too? Hmmmm
birds are just adorable...however I would NEVER trust my cats around them...I do not think you are a bad person at all and you obviously are fond of animals..just not the best decision with the cats
agree with this. obv you like the animals but it is also clear the cats were excited by the birds movements and were stalking them. This will have caused problems for the parents of the chicks who are not so niaive as the babies and you risk them being abandoned. Great footage, just keep your cats in around fledging time.
Yesterday one of my cats brought a dead body of blue tit baby and I rescued one baby from my other cat's mouth. It was so devastating. My cats are looking for birds to kill which I hate and I have decided to move blue tit's wooden home from my garden now.
Wonderful footage! Different cats, different behaviour...some cats simply don't want to kill little birdies. For nearly 30 years I live with cats, some like only mice and some only want birds, some only want to play and sleep...and some kill everything what's not fast enough. Sated with food doesn't change anything. Cats are natural born killers. Well, nature is sometimes rough.
Thanks for sharing! My daughter and I watched your film with glee. We have cats and one brought us a tiny baby blue tit this morning. We have tried the advice 'leave it in the bushes' but this afternoon it was still there. So home feeding it is...
thankes god and your queen, you are not living in croatia. in case u live, activists for animal rights would grab you and teach you valuable lesson which your parents did not. offcourse you would pay also few thousand euros law penalties because that birds are protected by law.
that is brilliant footage, well done! must be a very well fed cat not to bother with the little fledgeling , or a clueless one.. but next time it might feel like eating it.. cats eat MANY fledgelings, feral cats are a real menace to many species :(
Fluffy little birbs sleep everywhere ! so lovely it seems their parent birbs also knew cats are gentle and just curious. They built their nest in his garden despite they knew there were two cats in the house. I enjoyed the video so much. Thank you for uploading this lovely video and don't mind the offensive comments
That is the coolest video, I love how the cat wants to play with the little chicks. Although I think I would be wary for that cat, those look like ninja chicks, and the poor cat might get his eye poked out.!!!
Hi I have read your comment. We are bird lovers too. If you don’t mind please check my video about saving a blue tit. ua-cam.com/video/yjDAlMQv5T8/v-deo.html Hope you like it. Thanks
Keep cats indoors when baby birds are out! I was so scared a cat would kill them :(
I don't think he would have uploaded the video if that was the outcome. So relax and enjoy.
In the future if you see the '"Adviser Disclaimer" at the beginning of a video then you know not to watch.
Was enjoying it until the cat came into it. What were you thinking?
Exactly!
It’s just tryna watch some window television. Good thing that it is not outside with the birds,..
They are probably sadistic to enjoy watching their "tame" cat most likely not harm them.
Ugh even the tamest could kill a bird....
Totally agree with you.
Sorry, but keep your fucking cats in your house!
They are "poison" for wildlife animals.. like them precious birds.
The poor mother of these babies must have been soo upset.
And scared away from feeding them... they are dependent on their parents to feed them after fledging
I did hear one or two distress calls from the parent birds when the cats were there, but overall it sounded and looked like it was ok in the end. An update from the person who filmed would be helpful. Edit: it seems the birds fledged fine later that day, the poster did leave a message about the birds wellbeing so spot on for me.
@@Eleventhearlofmars _"it seems the birds fledged fine later that day"_ They fledged before this video was taken, otherwise they wouldn't have been out of the nest. ;)
poor things must have been terrified. they can have heart attacks very easily.
Exactly.
10:30 omg you don't even care that the cat is hurting him!!
I'm a Cat person and all, however it's very sad to see the poor fledgling being chased around terrified by the Cat about to attack it repeatedly.
I know this is old and you mean well but keep your cats away! Bloody hell the worst predator for a baby bird and your letting two of them go near a stressed out bird. I wouldnt of been surprised if they had of abandoned it based it being too dangerous to attempt to feed it.
Thank you!💜 That's exactly my opinion.
In the middle of this video I got so damn angry
You can hear the parent bird's alarm calls throughout the clip.
I am not Surprised the BBC returned it - how very irresponsible are you to let your cats out to paw IDiOT
There are plenty of livestream here on YT about tits nesting- it’s astonishing how much work it is for the bird parents to raise their young ones. It’s a tragedy when these birds are killed by a cat, just because the cat is bored and needs some distraction. Cats and birds should just be kept away from each other, there is nothing, absolutely nothing cute about cats who are interested in birds.
Dear Sir, every minute the cats were nearby, are minutes, when the parents BlueTits didn't feed the baby fledgling. Plus, these babies must have fledged too early, their plumage is too short, their tails are too short, they can hardly fly and they need constant feeding and sleeping. The nestbox must have been too shallow. It must be much deeper, so that chicks can only fledge when they are more developed and fully ready for living outside. These nestlings stayed mostly on the ground, instead they should be flying easily in the trees, if they fledged not so prematurely..
So I do need to give you two advices, dear friend.
1. Make a deeper nesting box, so the chicks can only fledge then they are fully ready (21st day), so they cannot fledge by accident. This means that the hole must be high above the floor and the nest cup inside (at least 20-30 centimeters or 10-12 inches); and
2. Please always keep the kittens/cats inside when nesting season. Little chicks need to be fed every 30 minutes. A cat around, even if it is very friendly, scares mom and dad, and they cannot feed the chick on schedule. Fledglings are fed by the parents for at least 2-3 more weeks outside the nest. So each missed feeding, means the chick is losing weigth, starving, getting weaker, etc.
I am not blaming you, I do not mean anything bad. We all make mistakes and learn from them. The video is not bad, and I hope the chick has grown up and has made it, even though the dangers it has been through. Thanks. Cheers!
PS. Technically - good camera work, good focus, good quality.
Don’t let the cats near the chicks 😭 even if they don’t kill them they should be learning that cats are dangerous
Oh, no! NEVER leave a cat near a bird! This could be fatal and tragic for the bird. It's not the cat's fault, it's its nature. But as a human being who takes care of birds, you always need to bear this in mind.
Exactly! Dumb people.
Blue Tits currently nesting in our garden and my curiosity of what the chirping chicks look like is what brought me across this delightful video recording. We also have a British Shorthair and so can fully appreciate the gentleness of the two that feature here alongside the fledglings. Just adorable - thank you so much for sharing.
Did you not even see that the cat was pulling him!!??!
Here's a slightly different perspective: By letting the chicks get used to having a 'friendly' cat around, they are less likely to survive their next encounter with an UNfriendly cat... because they'll be more inclined to trust it. Never forget that our actions, even the smallest ones, can have repercussions beyond our immediate knowledge or understanding. Cats are non-native. They are invasive. They kill wild native populations of all sorts of birds and mammals, and if you keep cats as pets, they should not be allowed to free-roam. Period. It's time we collectively dumped the antiquated belief that cats don't belong on leashes, and start taking responsibility for the impact our choices have on the environment. Thanks for reading.
"With two helpers"
So for you a cat hitting a bird is "helping"
leave cats indoors if baby birds not flying yet.!!!😠😞😭
It's a well shot video, but I read your piece, in response to previous comments, and what you obviously fail to realise is that what you are doing here is teaching these fledglings that cats are no danger to them. Your cats might mean them no harm, but by your own admission, other cats (like your neighbour's) would kill them instantly. Throughout this video you can hear the parent bird's alarm calls, but the fledglings are to young to know better. From this moment onwards, these fledglings will think of cats as being no threat to them. This was a really bad idea!
It was very dangerous and risky to let cats come close to them :/ Cats are killers... Your cats were VERY well trained. I know many who are not :/
And even though they seem well trained, they are still stressing the birds out. It's horrible. 👎
@@calimero8765 all the birds fledged fine , all four of them.
Sadistic 🙄🤮😡 cats have deadly bacteria in their saliva and claws that can kill a bird just by being touched. Not to mention the fright the chicks and parents lived and wrongly teaching them not to run from predators 🙄
When the baby bird grows up it will think ALL cats are friendly !!!
Cute little buggers but why do you let your cats get close to them? Your cat is funny but i wouldnt trust it myself, because cats are predators. Well im glad nothing bad happened to these beauty's
Keep that cat indoors...
Yes forsure the 🐱 would swallow them both whole
Beatiful, but a bit of common sense keep the cat away from the birds no offended but a bit stupid of you 😤😤😡
Shut the fuck up
Nice grammar tbh.
@@RicharddtheStar You kiss your dad with that mouth?
@@RicharddtheStar no
That zoom out shot of a cat really got me :D
Lovely video of the fledgling, but why oh why let two cats harass it, and even film it? Poor thing is not a plaything for cats, at any second that baby could have been killed.
But it is a plaything for a cat
Don't let cats near them! A bloody cat got into our nestbox today and ate the chicks. I came here to see what we would have been able to see.
Why let the cats torment them - shame!!!
The cat is slapping the bird. How could you possibly let that happen!!!!
The parent birds were giving out distress calls when your cat was there. You should keep them away.
no wonder they didn't show it. The baby blue tit was terribly stressed and was being harrassed by two cats. You may not have found it particularly worrying but you had no guarantee that your cats, nice though they may be, would not have unintentionally accidentally harmed that baby bird. It looks like baiting. The bird was so stressed that it had to put it's head under its' wing because it was so tired from the stress you put it under. I'm not at all surprised that this was not shown. Most cats that other people have would not react like that and even picking the bird up out of curiosity which the cats may well have done if left alone with the bird long enough, would kill it. Cat saliva is toxic to birds and even a scratch from a claw will kill a bird if it is not given antibiotics.
what a strange video. I can't honestly say I enjoyed it except the early bit. I loved those early pics, especially with a sweet looking cat BEHIND a door in the kitchen. I can see why you thought it ok for the cats to be filmed with the chicks, looked cute etc and you obviously love them (and care about birds). But as others have said, distressing to watch, (although some comments have been positive). Just goes to show how diverse humans are! You have had some strong (and offensive) comments. It's amazing what people will say online. But cats and birds co-existing? Not really. The chicks had to put up with a lot, but maybe they were saved from the neighbours cats. What a precarious world birds live in, no wonder many species are in decline.
The video is well filmed but I peronally don't like the idea that the chicks were getting accustomed to the idea that hanging out with cats was perfectly safe.
It was a nice vid...until the cats came out...was it really necessary to let your cats out?
I think the BBC didn't want to use your vid bcz they didn't want to send the wrong message to viewers: bring our cats out when there are wild baby birds and there parents around your garden. Maybe that's why, as that;s not the right thing to do.....
So you have never heard of editing, then?
@muted spark lol true
Y did she bring out the cats @ the cannot fly ,that is very mean of u lady supposed the did eat them ,when I c the cats I was so frightened my head start spinning OMG, that is very mean of u😭😭😭😭😨😨😨
@@diesel_dawg I guess the BBC didnt want to edit it
@@seus2731 they don’t want condone such actions.
okay at first i was like awww so cute but then the video just pissed the fuck out of me....
did not like it either, if one cat snapped the cute little bird would be killed....
Shame on you! This little bird could have had a heart attack!
How fantastic this is, that little bird really has no idea of the danger and your cats are so sweet with it. The BBC can not do better.
Mrculps, I believe wholeheartedly that you never meant harm to these birds, and until the cats make their entrance this is beautiful footage. I really enjoyed watching it.
I also totally agree with you that not all 'assumed' enemies will act to stereotype. But... I think you're missing the point as to why people get upset about this video.
The point is, you were taking the risk.
One of the cats was actually in stalking mode, and while it only played with the chick, at any moment it could have suddenly struck with its claws out or gone to bite the chick and you may not have been able to stop it happening.
I don't think everyone is assuming the cats will definitely attack, but we all know that cats cause devastating losses to our song birds every year, and I hope that most people, on finding fledglings in this position would have not wanted to take the same risk that you did.
Had one of the chicks been hurt, I'm sure you would have been really upset and it obviously wouldn't have been intentional, but it would have been avoidable - and that is the point.
Hopefully you would act differently if in the same situation again. There is some beautiful footage like I said (before the cats), so thank you for that... :)
A few people have made this very same point, so I hope you understand what we're trying to say now... :)
Absolutely appalling that you let cats so near them! They are confused and terrified when they leave the nest, and they beg for parents attention and to reassure them and you just let them get even more terrified. And how do you think parents felt seeing a cat around their babies???
Terrible!
I understand that you trust your cats, I do, but I think the key issue here is, the baby is very impressionable and if it doesn't have to fear your cats, it wouldn't know to fear others. Also, all the time your cat was there, the parents would be stressing about their baby and unable to feed it. Baby blues tits need around 100 feeds per day, whilst they're still fed by their parents and the time the cat took away from the baby, could have been damaging and a waste of valuable time, energy and resources by the parents.
At the end of the video, you could hear the adult bird, giving a stress signal. You were inadvertently beng seriously cruel and watching the chick, face to face with a cat, did you notice it's chest. You shouldn't be able to see a bird breathing like that, you probably helped enormously, by shortening it's already short life.
This is not meant to be a nasty comment, I honestly believe you had no idea what anguish you were inflicting on this poor bird family.
This time of the year (May and June) I'm on tit patrol in the garden. Always get a few that fledge and crash land in the back garden, then attract next doors cats, so as soon as I see the cat(s) in my garden I know there's a fledgling out there somewhere and the cat's get shooed out and then I try and spend the day watching out for the baby tits. Lost a few to the cats but also helped a few to gain strength and fly up into the trees.
Poor tiny teenie birds in big danger
Wow. You can really see how vulnerable fledglings are. Your cat is very nice.
That's a NOGO friend, what you allowing with your cats!
Hi Chunky - glad you liked it, as the end credits say the good old BBC were not interested and I just can't work out why!
Perhaps 'the good old BBC' was afraid of this unreasonable discussion what started here at yours. What a pity! Wonderful video! Thank you very much!
!!!!!! Filming cats distressing the chicks!!!!!! Not good at all. Sick in fact.
why let the cat out so when the bird grows up it wont be afraid of cats and one will kill it
Hungry little chicks calling for food, they are very pretty ❤
I am not sure if that act with the cat was good. What does it teach that young one? That a cat is no danger. Which cannot be said of every cat.
two helpers? ummmm cats eat baby birds when given the chance. Those baby birds were shaking in fear :( why did you let those cats out? Anyone else waiting for baby bird to turn into dinner?
Thank you for sharing .. I am sorry you didn't receive a response from the BBC .. they could have at the very least offered encouragement and perhaps said why it wasn.t appropriate footage for them at that time... we really enjoyed it .. thank you again
I have no words. I'm reporting this video.
Poor 🐦 😭😭😭😭😭 bad people!!! Bad cats !!!! Special the gray fat 🐱 Is not fear dor rhe 🐦 🐦!!! You like in the school rhe big one child hit your small child? Karma is coming !
The bird are not toys for 🐱 🐱 😡😡
Baby birds as so vulnerable to cats at this stage. A cat can dispatch 10 baby birds in an evening hunting. And they are not humane killers.
This video shows how not to involve with little birds in your garden. He lets his cats get in touch with the young birds. The young birds and the parent are obviously stressed. You can here the parents giving alarm signals. They are very stressed. Also the filmer picks up the little birds for no reason other then the filmer his own interest. People watching this film can get a very wrong idea how to deal with these birds.
Emer Ha .....sometimes life isn't stress free.
Sad 😭
At the end of the day nature won. However don't mind whether BBC uses it or not. We all loved this so much so many of my friends and relatives. Thanks once again and very mature and beautiful photography. Had you not posted the same in YT you could have send the same in NG.
Зачем так испытывать судьбу беззащитных синичек у кошек может инстинкт проявиться
Are you trying to kill the chicks?
What wrong with you letting the cats near. Mum & dad need to get back to their babies.
even if your cat is well behaved... cat claws can contain a lot of bacteria, and even a light graze from a cat can cause a fatal infection for tiny animals like this. responsible pet owners who own both well mannered cats and small birds or rodents know to prevent any contact between them. irresponsible owners usually allow it becuase of the disbelief that the two animals can "get along". and theirs many owners who carry the "my pets are special" to blanket carelessness. its different to google "bird and cat co-exsisting" and "can birds and cats co-exsist?" and seeing how clearly their needs to be no physical contact between the two animals in order for them to be under the same home.
how about an update?
im guessing because the cats were let out and the parents saw the cats at some point, the fledglings were possibly abandoned, and id have been supprised if 1 of the 2 left int he garden would have survived anyway, not to mention even if the fledglings did fine, now they may be less curious of cats and will probably end up as cat food because of that, even very well fed cats will kill out of sport, my parents cat the kindest cutest cat, fed extremely well, would kill anything in the garden purely for fun, and they didnt (and still dont) have a bird table or feeders, though the cat died of old age a few years ago.
Brilliant!! SO amazing! We have just had four babies leave our nest today! It was lovely to see!
Absolutely loved it. Thank you for sharing this. Love your cats as well.
Amazing that the cats don't hurt them, the big problem is......its important that the birds are naturally scared of cats, one day they will trust the wrong cat and will unfortunately get their heads bitten off.
Thanks for your comment, I have been wondering the same really. I should get more people to mention it on Facebook or Twitter and see if that gets more hits.
How adorable 😍
You have to learn why "branchlings" could not fly and must feeded by parents all the time and if cats in the near they didn't feeding! That's a judgment of death.
7:10 천적인지 모르고 그냥 머리 위로 날아서 올라가려고 한듯 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 새끼들은 자꾸 높은 곳 타고 올라가려 하더라구요
superb footage 👍 The bbc's loss... They're pretty good at not seeing things right under their nose...
Seriously?
What an incredibly stupid and thoughtless person letting their cats harrass the birds. You shouldn't even touch the chicks.
Angela shut your fucking mouth.
+RicharddtheStar Easy tiger
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Very nice,the cat has got its beady eye on them
wow that was a amazing video loved it and the cats were fantastic they were kind of looking after them wot a beautiful video to watch thank you for filming x
This is rather silly. The parents would have been in full on panic having just you preventing them from coming down into the garden. But cats too? Hmmmm
Bitch you make no sense
+RicharddtheStar Try an education. Might help you with words and syntax.
You were very confident that your cats wouldn't try anything. Did you feed them extra before letting them into the garden?
Why would you think that BBC would use this footage? Your cats ruined the video! NOBODY wants to see your cats harassing a fledgling!
아무데서나 자면 어떡해~~!~! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 포동포동 너무 이쁘네요
Dude stop stressing out the parents and the babies. Don’t hold them or let your cat near them!
Sorry, but you are sadic. You can't terrify the birds like that.
So cute ❤
birds are just adorable...however I would NEVER trust my cats around them...I do not think you are a bad person at all and you obviously are fond of animals..just not the best decision with the cats
agree with this. obv you like the animals but it is also clear the cats were excited by the birds movements and were stalking them. This will have caused problems for the parents of the chicks who are not so niaive as the babies and you risk them being abandoned. Great footage, just keep your cats in around fledging time.
Yesterday one of my cats brought a dead body of blue tit baby and I rescued one baby from my other cat's mouth. It was so devastating. My cats are looking for birds to kill which I hate and I have decided to move blue tit's wooden home from my garden now.
Why not keep your cats indoors; safer for them and wildlife.
Wonderful footage!
Different cats, different behaviour...some cats simply don't want to kill little birdies. For nearly 30 years I live with cats, some like only mice and some only want birds, some only want to play and sleep...and some kill everything what's not fast enough.
Sated with food doesn't change anything. Cats are natural born killers.
Well, nature is sometimes rough.
So lovely birds and a very special cat!!
Its amazing jazalllah khairun.. love it how the blue one is feeding the other one
stressed the parent birds out for your own entertainment. sick.
the most interesting film i've seen this year
You haven't watched much then, have you?! This is horrible!
How did the cats not eat or kill it?
Thanks for sharing! My daughter and I watched your film with glee. We have cats and one brought us a tiny baby blue tit this morning. We have tried the advice 'leave it in the bushes' but this afternoon it was still there. So home feeding it is...
Thank yu for sharing it with us! They were adorable, I enjoyed watching them, very much and the cats, too!
Busy garden eh! Mine should be like this soon. Lets hope the magpie bugs off and leaves them to grow
lol, 2:17 "SOON."
thankes god and your queen, you are not living in croatia. in case u live, activists for animal rights would grab you and teach you valuable lesson which your parents did not. offcourse you would pay also few thousand euros law penalties because that birds are protected by law.
I am so glad I found this. Thank you.
it's reckless and stupid. how can you do that and still record it?
Amazing !
The cats like let me at em haha great footage
that is brilliant footage, well done! must be a very well fed cat not to bother with the little fledgeling , or a clueless one.. but next time it might feel like eating it.. cats eat MANY fledgelings, feral cats are a real menace to many species :(
Fluffy little birbs sleep everywhere ! so lovely
it seems their parent birbs also knew cats are gentle and just curious. They built their nest in his garden despite they knew there were two cats in the house. I enjoyed the video so much. Thank you for uploading this lovely video and don't mind the offensive comments
That is the coolest video, I love how the cat wants to play with the little chicks. Although I think I would be wary for that cat, those look like ninja chicks, and the poor cat might get his eye poked out.!!!
Hi
I have read your comment.
We are bird lovers too.
If you don’t mind please check my video about saving a blue tit.
ua-cam.com/video/yjDAlMQv5T8/v-deo.html
Hope you like it.
Thanks
Thank you so much, I love small birds, it's been a very tough year there very therapeutic for me🙂🙏
It was nice until you let the cat to be so close to the cute lil birb :(
evil cats....
What a complete knobhead to let that happen AND to film it! Most people who show cruel tendencies like this go on to be serial killers! It's a fact.