I agree!
during breeding season I would love cat owners to possibly adhere to the not letting them out during dusk and dawn. This is when the newly fledged birds generally fledge.
Just to give a bit of perspective, fledglings such as our beautiful robin and blackbird, can’t fly initially when they fledge. Instead they search for ground cover, while their parents still feed them on the ground. Over those critical first few days of fledging, they gain strength in their wings which enable them to eventually fly!
What boils my piss is your cat, full on their lunch, being let out and they piss about playing with a weeks old robin fledgling, which is newly fledged and trying to gain that strength to be able to fly, therefore never having a chance to do that! Same with blackbirds and many others!
I spend so much time in my garden watching birds courting, pairing up during spring, care for their young, see off magpies, Sparrowhawks, all kinds of natural predators, they work so hard raising their young! It’s heartbreaking when your domesticated cat comes along and takes a youngster, who is newly fledged, can’t fly but is trying to survive! It’s fucking shit tbh!
Nature is harsh but domesticated Tibbles is a fucking Twat!