THE BREEDING SEASON

                                                                                                                                                          We're well into the breeding season now and that means nests, eggs, chicks and  juvenile's. Roving BTO nest finder Steve Carter has been over to the farm and found a few nests as well as checking on our nest box colony which up til now (touch wood) has been quit successful. Lee Parsons also has been over on a couple of occasions and found Steve a meadow pipits nest and has also took some nice photographs of some of the nests. 

First our Tawny owl, only one chick reared but it has successfully fledged.

Tawny owlet

Here's some of the nests that Steve and Lee has found.

redstart

meadow pipit

chaffinch

dunnock

song thrush chicks

pied wagtail sitting tight, this nest was a success with all the chicks fledging 

linnet

                         

Some of the birds,

dunnock

great tit

great spotted woodpecker

blue tit

female redstart

female blackbird

male blackbird

female linnet

male redstart

nuthatch

greenfinch

coal tit

pied wagtail

male reed bunting

male siskin

goldfinch

male chaffinch

The pied wagtails have already fledged so have the nuthatches and the Blackbirds that I had nesting in one of my new boxes I added to the colony this year.