15/05 Mount Hill Bagnor

Location: Mount Hill Bagnor

Session: 15-May-2015 06:15 to 08:30hrs

Weather: Sunny calm

Present: JL

Notes: 42 nest boxes checked,  9 not occupied
Blue Tit occupy 17 boxes, most sitting on eggs or recently hatched chicks, 2 had chick about 4 days old.
Great Tit occupy 14 boxes, most sitting on egg or very young chicks, 2 might have deserted (eggs cold)
Nuthatch occupy 2 boxes sitting on young chicks
Nesting here seems a little behind elsewhere particularly Great Tit and Nuthatch.

Sightings 30 Species: The Tawny Owl was a few feet away at head height pretending to be part of a tree; looked like a recently fledged juvenile.

Blackbird Blackcap Blue Tit Bullfinch Carrion Crow Chaffinch Chiffchaff Coal Tit Dunnock Goldfinch Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Jackdaw Long-tailed Tit

Marsh Tit Nuthatch Pheasant Red-legged Partridge Robin Rook Skylark Song Thrush Swallow Tawny Owl Treecreeper Whitethroat Woodpigeon Wren Yellowhammer