This is one of my garden nestboxes. No Blue Tits for me this year, oh no. Tree Sparrows! Feeding young with bill fulls of St Marks flies. A while back I mentioned hoping to get the Tree Sparrows to nest as the habitat looks right and they do visit my seed feeder, so I was pleased to finally confirm our new lodgers.
In time for next spring there will be more spuggies boxes erected in the hope of establishing a colony.
Not a lot of bird activity around the village this weekend though two House Martins joined local Swallows on wires during a rain shower, new for the OFFH list. While gardening 3 Whimbrel flew south overhead...autumn is early this year...
4 comments:
Fantastic stuff Stewart. Great to see another site for Tree Sparrows.
That's superb Stewart. Tree Sparrow is very scarce around Bedfordshire as a breeding bird
I hope your Tree Sparrow colony appears for you Stewart, we need more of 'em!
Great news on the tree sparrows nesting. I hope you manage to attract a colony when you put up more nestboxes.
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