Thanks Sonia, I've been lucky to watch some successful raising of chicks in those same nesting holes in past years but I guess now the monkeys have discovered them, that will not happen again.
Yes, 😢 it is sad.. Life is tough on birds where we live too; (Hogsback.) In the Village the Frankolin have almost disappeared. (Monkeys, snakes, baboons. , jennets) Yet the monkeys are battling to survive too, against baboons! Life is tough in the wild! You don't see old animals!
Decades ago the farmers shots all the large eagles that would have eaten the monkeys and baby baboons. We humans have upset the balance of nature and we wonder why. It's our own fault that the monkeys are now thriving and the birds are battling.
@lynetterudman I like having wildlife around, including the vervets, but they wreak havoc with the weavers, too. And they raid my kitchen if I leave the door open. But the weavers work SO hard...
Yes it is very sad. Where we live, there are two troops of thirty odd vervet monkeys and every day they go through our bush around our home. We very seldom see fledglings.
That is another option but seeing the two monkeys at the area of the two nesting holes, made me realise it was them. Not sure which culprit raided the Hadeda nest though.
Sad and disappointed with you. We viewers shared your sense of excitement, seeing the young being fed and looking forward to them getting ready to leave the nest. I had a troup of vervet monkeys visiting regularly in Pretoria, never realising that they would harm birdlife. I fondly imagined them to be vegetarian. Nature is harsh. You must have felt such a sense of loss. Those videos showing the feeding holes were so interesting. Sorry
Sorry about the precious bird families you were monitoring
Thanks Sonia, I've been lucky to watch some successful raising of chicks in those same nesting holes in past years but I guess now the monkeys have discovered them, that will not happen again.
Yes, 😢 it is sad..
Life is tough on birds where we live too; (Hogsback.) In the Village the Frankolin have almost disappeared. (Monkeys, snakes, baboons.
, jennets) Yet the monkeys are battling to survive too, against baboons! Life is tough in the wild! You don't see old animals!
Decades ago the farmers shots all the large eagles that would have eaten the monkeys and baby baboons. We humans have upset the balance of nature and we wonder why. It's our own fault that the monkeys are now thriving and the birds are battling.
Very sad that all 3 nests were raided. Parent birds put in such effort only to suffer total losses
It makes me terribly sad. Birds work so hard and use so much energy in feeding chicks etc.
Yes. I had a couple of long crested eagles just down the road. No more, after I saw our local troop of vervets in that tree.
They cause destruction wherever they go. Poor birds don't stand a chance when they are nesting.
@lynetterudman I like having wildlife around, including the vervets, but they wreak havoc with the weavers, too. And they raid my kitchen if I leave the door open.
But the weavers work SO hard...
Yes it is very sad. Where we live, there are two troops of thirty odd vervet monkeys and every day they go through our bush around our home. We very seldom see fledglings.
So sad.
It left me feeling very sad too. Poor birds.
Eish !!!!😢
Yip, eish indeed!
In nature they live by the grace,,,like the ostrich out of 14 chicks maybe only 5 will make it to fully grown
Very true. It's tough out there in nature.
Could it have been a gymnogene (African Harrier Hawk)? I've seen them raid nests and cause pandemonium among the smaller birds.
That is another option but seeing the two monkeys at the area of the two nesting holes, made me realise it was them. Not sure which culprit raided the Hadeda nest though.
Sad and disappointed with you. We viewers shared your sense of excitement, seeing the young being fed and looking forward to them getting ready to leave the nest. I had a troup of vervet monkeys visiting regularly in Pretoria, never realising that they would harm birdlife. I fondly imagined them to be vegetarian. Nature is harsh. You must have felt such a sense of loss. Those videos showing the feeding holes were so interesting. Sorry
Thanks for the view. Yes, I'm really disappointed and feel so sorry for the birds that worked so hard to feed their chicks. Nature is extremely harsh.