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Bird Boxes
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Type
and Situation |
Findings
on 28th January 2006 |
Findings
Spring/Summer 2008 |
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Box 1
Blue Tit box in the Ash Tree to the right inside the gate
at the Holly Guest Road entrance |
Used - possibly by Great Tits |
8th March 2008: Used by Blue
Tits - Replaced
19/5/08: Used by Great Tits - chicks fledged |
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Box 2
Blue Tit box in the third Lime Tree on the left inside
the gate at the Holly Guest Road entrance |
Used - possibly by Great Tits |
8th March 2008: Used as a store - Replaced
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 3
Blue Tit box in the Hawthorn in the middle of the field
below the log seat |
Used - Blue Tits |
8th March 2008: Box OK - cleaned out
19/5/08: Unused
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Box 4
Robin box in the Hawthorn next to the one above |
Used by Bank Voles for storage of Hawthorn
seeds for winter food - they had drilled them and removed
the kernels to eat |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 5
In the Alder below the dogs' drinking pool |
Used - Great Tits |
8th March 2008: Found on the ground -
Replaced
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 6
In a Cherry Tree near the Oak Tree pond |
Repaired |
8th March 2008: Used by Blue Tits - there
was an unhatched egg in the nest
Replaced
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 7
In another Cherry Tree near the Oak Tree pond |
Used - Blue Tits |
8th March 2008: Unused but still in good
condition
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 8
In the Ash Tree in the left hand hedge as you walk down
from the log seat, and opposite the Cherry Trees |
Used - Blue Tits |
8th March 2008: Unused - Replaced |
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Box 9
In the Orchard to the left as you walk up the path |
Used |
8th March 2008: Unused - Replaced |
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Box 10
In a Damson Tree in the Orchard to the right as you walk
up the path |
Used - possibly by a Wren |
8th March 2008: Used by Blue Tits - Replaced |
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Box 11
In the Hawthorns near the apple store by a Tydemans Early
Worcester Apple Tree |
Used - Blue Tits |
8th March 2008: Unused
19/5/08: Partial nest built
6 June 2008: Partial Blue Tit nest built |
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Box 12
In an Apple Tree |
Used - Blue Tits (unused in 2005) |
8th March 2008: Unused - Replaced
6 June 2008: Partial Great Tit nest built |
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Box 13
In the Hawthorns by the grafted Apple Trees |
Used - Blue Tits |
8th March 2008: Unused
6 June 2008: 6 Great Tit eggs |
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Box 14
In a large Hawthorn in the Orchard across from No 9 |
Had been occupied and there was still a Great
Tit's egg in it |
8th March 2008: Probably not used in
2007
Old nest, probably from later in 2006, removed
6 June 2008: Partial Great Tit nest built |
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Owl box
On the Great Oak Tree by the pond |
Packed solid with oak leaves, grass and twigs
- no owl but used as a squirrel's drey |
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Box 15
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
Used - Great Tit or Blue Tit |
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Box 16
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees (in line
with Miss Harris's seat) |
Replaced with a Tit box |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 17
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
Unused |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 18
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
Contained a small amount of nesting material
- an unsuccessful nest |
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Box 19
In a Maple Tree in the bottom copse |
Taken from the hedge for repair - contained
a beetle nest. Replaced but sited in the copse as 17 and 18
in the hedge hadn't been used |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 20
In one of the other Maples in the bottom copse |
New box |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 21
Bottom of the path at the entrance to the Steps Wood |
New box |
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Box 22
In a Hawthorn to the far left of the path in the Steps
Wood - close to the edge of the wood |
Previously used by Blue Tits but the entrance
hole had been enlarged to about 10cm over the past year by
a Woodpecker |
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Box 23
In a Hawthorn just up from Box 22 |
New Box
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19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 24
In Oak Tree on left of the path in the Steps Wood going
back towards the hill overlooking Oak Tree pond |
Hole enlarged (possibly by a Squirrel
or Green Woodpecker) - unused. Box replaced.
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19/5/08: Used by Great Tits - chicks fledged |
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Box 25
In a Field Maple off a side path to the left of the main
step path after the first set of steps |
Used - Great Tits
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19/5/08: Used by Blue Tits - chicks fledged |
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Box 26
In a Hawthorn on the right hand side down from the second
set of steps |
New box
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19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 27
In a Hawthorn in a clearing in the lower far right of the
Steps Wood |
New box
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19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 28
Robin box in a Hawthorn tree between the Great Oak and
the Orchard |
Unused |
Unused
A large nest in the branches immediately above it |
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Tree Creeper box 1 |
n/a |
19/5/08: 14 dead chicks - possibly Blue Tits.
Tapered shape of box probably unsuitable for them |
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Tree Creeper box 2 |
n/a |
19/5/08: Occupied by Great Tits - chicks
fledged |
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Tree Creeper box 2 |
n/a |
19/5/08: Partially built nest abandoned |
