Following on from John's post, I paid my first
trip to the nest boxes in Pott Yeats, Littledale today. There are 43 boxes there that have held small
numbers of Pied Flycatchers in recent years, 2018 was typical with 5 pairs all successful.
Today nine nests were found with eggs in all and females incubating in
three of them (One nest contained 10 warm eggs).
Two further
Redstart nests were found with incubating females in place. Interestingly, both nests were in boxes with
‘normal’ circular entrance holes. The
small number of boxes with ‘shuttlecock’ shaped holes intended for Redstarts
have never attracted any of that species over the last few years but one of
this year’s Pied Flycatchers has occupied
a ‘shuttlecock’ box.
Blue Tit and
Great Tit numbers this year so far are about average.
Alan
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