Learning to Find Food and Stay Safe

A young Great Tit learning to survive
© 2004 David Jones

For a few weeks after fledging, the parents and their chicks stay together as a group. The parents show the young birds how to keep safe from predators and how to find food for themselves.

When the parents think the young birds can look after themselves, they fly away, leaving them to fend for themselves.

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