Summary of Events - 2021

The diary started this year on Monday 14th December, 2020

  Box1 - Ella & Ernie Box2 - Scruffy & ?
   5 Dec   Box cleaned and remounted
14 Dec Box cleaned, collar replaced and box remounted  
14 Dec First visit  
21 Dec First swap over  
21 Feb First nesting material brought to box  
23 Feb First nesting wriggle  
   7 Mar A third of the base of the box is covered Removed 28mm metal plate to encourage great tits
27 Mar First feathers brought into box Still no sign of a pair of any species taking over this box
29 Mar Nest completed  
30 Mar Ella first roosted in the box  
  1 Apr    Start of nest building
  7 Apr    First nesting wriggle
17 Apr First EGG!  
18 Apr Egg 2  
19 Apr Egg 3  
20 Apr Egg 4  
21 Apr Egg 5  
22 Apr Egg 6  Incubation started  
25 Apr   Scruffy (BT) first roosted in the box
26 Apr   Visit from GT
27 Apr   Joint visit from GT pair
28 Apr   More GT visits
30 Apr   BTs appear to be back in charge
   1 May   Two BTs appear to be disputing ownership of nest box
  2 May    BT brings in lots of white feathers
  4 May  First egg hatched. GTs back
  5 May  Next 4 eggs hatched. Multiple visits from both BTs and GTs
  6 May  Last egg hatched.  Six chicks observed. Two BTs in box together - both female!
  8 May  All 6 chicks present - visit from a woodpecker. No visits
  9 May  Only 4 chicks can be seen No visits
10 May   All feathers had vanished when first switched on!
Later GTs visit
11 May Lump of moss which had been obscuring camera removed GT spends some time enlarging entrance hole
14 May Only 3 chicks can be seen More GT visits
15 May   GT visit
17 May   Woodpecker looks into the box
18 May   Last GT visit.  No recent BT visits.
24 May Wing flapping  
26 May All three chicks fledged before 8.20am  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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