Wednesday, May 11, 2011

New Resident...


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:

Johnnykinson said...

Fantastic stuff Stewart. Great to see another site for Tree Sparrows.

Trent Duval said...

That's superb Stewart. Tree Sparrow is very scarce around Bedfordshire as a breeding bird

Warren Baker said...

I hope your Tree Sparrow colony appears for you Stewart, we need more of 'em!

Ragged Robin said...

Great news on the tree sparrows nesting. I hope you manage to attract a colony when you put up more nestboxes.