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Bird Boxes
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Type
and Situation |
Findings
January
2006 |
Findings
Spring/
Summer
2008 |
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Box 1
Blue Tit box in Ash Tree to the right as you face the gate
at the Holly Guest Road entrance |
Used - possibly by Great Tits |
8/3/08: Used by Blue Tits
- Replaced
19/5/08: Used by Great Tits - chicks fledged |
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Box 2
Blue Tit box in third Lime Tree on the left inside the
gate at the Holly Guest Road entrance |
Used - possibly by Great Tits |
8/3/08: 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 |
8/3/08: Box OK - cleaned out
19/5/08: Unused
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Box 4
Robin box in the Hawthorn next to the one above
2009 - changed to Great Tit box |
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 |
8/3/08: 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 |
8/3/08: 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 |
8/3/08: 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 |
8/3/08: Unused - replaced |
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Box 9
In the Orchard to the left as you walk up the path |
Used |
8/3/08: 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 |
8/3/08: 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 |
8/3/08: Unused
19/5/08: Partial nest built
6/6/08: Partial Blue Tit nest built |
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Box 12
In an Apple Tree |
Used - Blue Tits (unused in 2005) |
8/3/08: Unused - replaced
6/6/08: Partial Great Tit nest built |
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Box 13
In the Hawthorns by the grafted Apple Trees |
Used - Blue Tits |
8/3/08: Unused
6/6/08: 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 |
8/3/08: Probably not used in 2007
Old nest, probably from later in 2006, removed
6/6/08: Partial Great Tit nest |
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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 |
Removed to be re-sited |
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Box 15
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
Used - Great Tit or Blue Tit |
Not examined |
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Box 6
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. A wren's nest was found below and
to the right. |
Not examined |
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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
6/12/08: Stolen |
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Box 21
Bottom of the path at the entrance to the Steps Wood |
New box |
Not examined |
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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 |
Not examined |
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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.
|
19/5/08: Used by Great Tits - chicks fledged |
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Box 25
In a Field Maple in the Steps Wood off a side path to the
left of the second 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
6/12/08: Woodpecker damage |
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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. Removed
and number 28 re-used elsewhere |
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New Box 28
Tree Creeper box 1 in Blackthorn scrub close to Box 23
in the Steps Wood |
n/a |
19/5/08: 14 dead chicks - possibly Blue
Tits. Tapered shape of box probably unsuitable for them |
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Box 29
Tree Creeper box 2 in Steps Wood |
n/a |
19/5/08: Occupied by Great Tits - chicks
fledged |
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Box 30
Tree Creeper box 3 at northern end of hedge on East side
of Quarry Field |
n/a |
19/5/08: Partially built abandoned nest |
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Box 31
Blue Tit box in Downy Birch next to European Union Oak
ring |
n/a |
n/a |
