Happy St. David's Day.
On the weekend I embarked on the annual nestbox cleaning and maintenance work. Emptying all the old nesting material out of the boxes and doing some repair work, also replaced a couple of boxes that were beyond saving.
All should be ready for the new nesting season, having said that some birds are already paired up and starting to build their nests even this early in the year.
With a big help from my step son Luke who can climb a tree like a monkey, we or should I say he managed to site our new owl box which I actually built last spring. Might be a bit late for this year but fingers crossed our regular breeding Tawney's will find it in time to breed this year.
our new owl box
The bird numbers are starting to pick up at the feeders with birds like this male Siskin making an appearance.
It's the first day of spring today and after the long dark days of winter combined with the never ending pandemic of Covid 19 it'll be a welcome relief to have the lighter nights and some fine weather.
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