Friday, May 25, 2007

Tree Sparrows

Les Midgeley asked me to pass this on. Yesterday afternoon (24th May) at Jay House Lane he watched 3 Pairs of Tree Sparrows with fledged young out in the open. Les thinks that the birds now range further through this area with more birds present than he remembers in the past. He also thinks the birds nested in both upper and lower chambers of the boxes, unless there are an upper & lower hole into the same compartment in the boxes ? He noted this as birds seemed to utilise both holes in the nest boxes. Its looks like the boxes have been a great success and something all concerned with the boxes should be very proud of.

1 comment:

Nick Carter said...

Its only one hole per box so birds entering seperate holes are seperate nests. Please pass on our thanks to Les for the updates and ask that he keeps monitoring, does he know how many of the boxes are occupied by Tree Sprogs in total?