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Bird Boxes
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Type
and Situation |
Findings
Spring/
Summer
2008 |
Findings
October
2009 |
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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 |
8/3/08: Used by Blue Tits
- Replaced
19/5/08: Used by Great Tits - chicks fledged |
Unused - good condition
Box lowered for easier access |
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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 |
8/3/08: Used as a store - replaced
19/5/08: Unused |
Used - nesting material cleaned out |
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Box 3
Blue Tit box in the Hawthorn in the middle of the field
below the log seat |
8/3/08: Box OK - cleaned out
19/5/08: Unused
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Contained seeds with tiny holes in them made
by field mice or dormice -
box cleaned |
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Box 4
Robin box in the Hawthorn next to the one above
2009 - changed to Great Tit box |
19/5/08: Unused |
Box had rotted - replaced by Great Tit box |
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Box 5
In the Alder below the dogs' drinking pool |
8/3/08: Found on the ground - replaced
19/5/08: Unused |
Blue Tit nest with 6 unhatched eggs -
box cleaned |
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Box 6
In a Cherry Tree near the Oak Tree pond |
8/3/08: Used by Blue Tits - there was
an unhatched egg in the nest
Replaced
19/5/08: Unused |
Great Tit feathers found but no nest - box
cleaned |
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Box 7
In another Cherry Tree near the Oak Tree pond |
8/3/08: Unused but still in good condition
19/5/08: Unused |
Blue Tit nest - box replaced |
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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 |
8/3/08: Unused - replaced |
Blue Tit nest with 7 abandoned eggs - box
cleaned
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Box 9
In the Orchard to the left as you walk up the path |
8/3/08: Unused - replaced |
Old Blue Tit nest (probably from 2008) with
3 unhatched eggs - hole enlarged so replaced |
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Box 10
In a Damson Tree in the Orchard to the right as you walk
up the path |
8/3/08: Used by Blue Tits - replaced |
Used nest - box replaced |
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Box 11
In the Hawthorns near the apple store by a Tydemans Early
Worcester Apple Tree |
8/3/08: Unused
19/5/08: Partial nest built
6/6/08: Partial Blue Tit nest built |
Not examined as ground was too overgrown |
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Box 12
In an Apple Tree |
8/3/08: Unused - replaced
6/6/08: Partial Great Tit nest built |
Good Great Tit nest with 2 unhatched eggs
- box cleaned |
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Box 13
In the Hawthorns by the grafted Apple Trees |
8/3/08: Unused
6/6/08: 6 Great Tit eggs |
Small nest - box cleaned |
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Box 14
In a large Hawthorn in the Orchard across from No 9 |
8/3/08: Probably not used in 2007
Old nest, probably from later in 2006, removed
6/6/08: Partial Great Tit nest |
Great Tit nest - box replaced |
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Owl box
On the Great Oak Tree by the pond |
Removed to be re-sited |
n/a |
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Box 15
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
Not examined |
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Box 6
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees (in line
with Miss Harris's seat) |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 17
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
19/5/08: Unused |
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Box 18
In the Holly Guest hedge of Cherry Plum Trees |
Not examined |
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Box 19
In a Maple Tree in the bottom copse |
19/5/08: Unused |
Gone |
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Box 20
In one of the other Maples in the bottom copse |
19/5/08: Unused
6/12/08: Stolen |
n/a |
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Box 21
Bottom of the path at the entrance to the Steps Wood |
Not examined |
Old nesting material - box replaced |
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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 |
Not examined |
Front almost destroyed by a woodpecker -
replaced |
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Box 23
In a Hawthorn just up from Box 22 |
19/5/08: Unused |
Unused possibly because of a large nest above
it - removed and new box 23 put in the next Hawthorn |
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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 |
19/5/08: Used by Great Tits - chicks fledged |
Old nesting material and large number of
green and black slugs - box replaced |
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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 |
19/5/08: Used by Blue Tits - chicks fledged |
Box had fallen off - replaced |
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Box 26
In a Hawthorn on the right hand side down from the second
set of steps |
19/5/08: Unused |
Nest - box damaged by woodpecker so replaced |
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Box 27
In a Hawthorn in a clearing in the lower far right of the
Steps Wood |
19/5/08: Unused
6/12/08: Woodpecker damage |
Blue Tit nest, chicks fledged - woodpecker
damaged so replaced
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Box 28
Robin box in a Hawthorn tree between the Great Oak and
the Orchard |
Unused
A large nest in the branches immediately above it. Removed
and number 28 re-used elsewhere |
n/a |
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New Box 28
Tree Creeper box 1 in Blackthorn scrub close to Box 23
in the Steps Wood |
19/5/08: 14 dead chicks - possibly Blue
Tits. Tapered shape of box probably unsuitable for them |
Full of nesting material |
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Box 29
Tree Creeper box 2 in Steps Wood |
19/5/08: Occupied by Great Tits - chicks
fledged |
Full of nesting material |
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Box 30
Tree Creeper box 3 at northern end of hedge on East side
of Quarry Field |
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 |
New box installed |
