Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Tree Sparrows at Jayhouse Lane

Les Midgely reports the following. At least three families of Sparrows are around the area. The only definite boxes he saw used were; the one on a telegraph post and one on a gatepost. The birds appear to use both boxes with no problems. He looked again yesterday (28th) and some birds seem to be about to start a second brood in boxes as they are taking in nesting material. Les also asked me to mention that the birds now seem to range over a much larger area along Jayhouse Lane than he remembers in the past, increasing population perhaps ?

1 comment:

Nick Carter said...

There are boxes at the farm down the Lane from the house gardens so perhaps they are breeding in those also, we felt pretty sure they did so last year.