We had a few sightings of Tree Sparrows on our feeders over winter and where hopefull that they would stay (they seemed to like the new seed mix!) during the summer.
A few weeks back we spotted a lonely spug chirping away by a couple of old tit-nestboxes in our back garden. We weren't hopefull that he would find a mate, but he has and they've taken over one of the boxes . They're an incredibly attentive pair, they're never far from each other! Hopefully, if all goes well, we should have some youngsters appearing in a few weeks time . If they succeed this year, then I'll have to see about rigging up some of the boxes to take CCD video feeds for next year!!!!
Another shot missed Not seen one of these this year, which is pretty sad. Cracking birds with more work to be done to support them. You have captured this beauty brilliantly Nick, well done
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We had a few sightings of Tree Sparrows on our feeders over winter and where hopefull that they would stay (they seemed to like the new seed mix!) during the summer.
A few weeks back we spotted a lonely spug chirping away by a couple of old tit-nestboxes in our back garden. We weren't hopefull that he would find a mate, but he has and they've taken over one of the boxes
Mike
nice picture and good to give the Sparrows a home.
John
Aberdeen
Good to hear of nesting boxes being occupied by non targeted species.
The bud on the rhs of the bird is the only downer on what is otherwise a clean image.
Cheers,
John