Peat Garden and Ebor Rise Bird Boxes Cleaning and Recording 21st September 2021
Peat Garden | Ebor Rise | ||
Bird Box Number/Tree | Content of Bird Boxes | Bird Box Number | Content of Bird Boxes |
1 Norway Maple by Mag. Well | Empty, wet. 2 Leopard slugs | 1 | Tit nest + one remaining egg. Woodpecker attack around hole. Earwigs. |
2 Norway Maple by Mag. Well | Nuthatch started. | 2 | Nuthatch nest probably successful. A construction of clay inside entrance and onto box floor. Probably by the nuthatch. Construction kept and photo taken. |
3 Coast Cypress | Nuthatch nest. | 3 | Nuthatch nest. A construction of clay. See notes for box 2. |
4 Scots Pine | Empty | 4 | Tit nest. Earwigs and slug. |
5 Bay Willow | Tit nest. Box reattached to tree. Photo taken. No artificial material observed in nest. | 5 | Tit nest. One egg left. |
6 Dawn Redwood | Tit nest. | 6 | Tit nest. Many earwigs. String. |
7 Cherry | Tree no longer exists. | 7 | Not able to reach – brambles need clearing. |
8 Pine by toilet | Empty. | 8 | Empty |
9 | Empty. | ||
Observations during year | 10 | Tit nest. | |
11 | Tit nest. | ||
12 | Tit nest. | ||
13 (on cherry tree) | Tit nest. | ||
14 | Not found | ||
. | 16 (near 7) | Possible Tit nest not completed. Moth hibernating. Pliers needed. |