Learning to Find Food and Stay Safe

A young Great Tit learning to survive
© 2004 David Jones

For a few weeks the chicks stay near their parents, who show them where they can find food and how to keep safe.

When the parents think their chicks can look after themselves, they fly away and leave them on their own.

That is the end of our nesting birds story. Next, you can explore another sign of spring and follow a frog's life cycle from frogspawn to adult frog.

Explore the frog life cycle