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The Big Clear Out!

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Mrs MahadevanMarch 9, 2014
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I would like to say a massive thank you to Mr Marriot for helping me clean out all the school’s bird boxes today. It managed to say mostly dry all morning but our fingers were numb with cold by the … Continue reading →

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The Ups and Downs of Nesting

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Mrs MahadevanAugust 5, 2013
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After a really sad end to the Great tit brood last Friday night, we can report that we have our first Blue tilt chick this morning! The Great tits abandoned the nest, possibly due to difficulties keeping the brood fed … Continue reading →

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The B&W Birdcam Box – Eggs!

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Mrs MahadevanFebruary 15, 2015
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A Blue tit has been roosting in the B&W birdcam box for a few nights now so we suspected that we might have eggs by now. The well of the nest has been kept closely covered during the day but … Continue reading →

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Great Tits Nesting in the Colour Birdcam Box

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Mrs MahadevanApril 8, 2013
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Although we don’t appear to have a Great Tit nesting in our Colour Birdcam Box any more, Great Tits started to build a nest yesterday. This time last year we had a pair of Tree Sparrows incubating eggs in our … Continue reading →

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A New Nesting Season Approaches

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Mrs MahadevanApril 30, 2013
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The beginning of March brought a few days of relatively warmer weather; we noticed that our nest boxes were attracting some day time visitors as well as the night time roosting birds. However, the snow in the second week may … Continue reading →

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Clear out Time

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Mrs MahadevanMarch 8, 2013
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The last day of term brought a break in the recent rainy weather, so Mr Marriot kindly visited each nest box to clean them out. We checked out each box for evidence of nesting activity from the previous season. The … Continue reading →

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Roosting Birds

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Mrs MahadevanJanuary 18, 2013
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Birds often use nest boxes to roost in once the weather gets colder in late autumn. Some, such as Blue Tits and Great Tit roost alone but others such as Wrens and House Sparrows may roost together in one box. The … Continue reading →

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Nesting Activity – May 2012

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 1, 2012
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Although we caught a glimpse of a Tree Sparrow chick in April, we think this first brood didn’t survive because of the extremely wet weather at the end of April, which made it difficult for the adults to collect insects … Continue reading →

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Nesting activity and our first chicks!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 2, 2012
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When we broke up for the Easter Holidays (30th March), we suspected that the Tree Sparrows in the B&W (Infant) box had started to incubate eggs. Although the dome shaped structure of the nest meant that the birds were mainly … Continue reading →

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A New Nesting Season Starts

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 1, 2012
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Birds are already checking out all our school boxes around the school grounds. Tree Sparrows have been building a nest in our B&W birdcam box and House Sparrows have been seen taking a little nesting material into our Colour birdcam … Continue reading →

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Bird Box Clear Out

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 1, 2012
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Autumn has well and truly arrived, so on Friday we decided it was time to clear out the school’s nest boxes to allow for a fresh start for next year. The RSPB and BTO recommend that boxes are cleaned each … Continue reading →

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A Third Brood for the Tree Sparrows

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 1, 2012
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Checking the live feed from the B&W birdcam box today, I could hear the faint sound of chicks chirping which means that a third brood of Tree Sparrow chicks have hatched some time during the last couple of days. They … Continue reading →

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Five More Tree Sparrows Fledge

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 12, 2012
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The Tree Sparrows nesting in our B&W birdcam box have successfully raised another brood of 5 chicks which fledged yesterday (Friday 24th June). Three of the chicks fledged by midday and the final two waited until it was a bit quieter, … Continue reading →

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A Second Brood!- B&W Birdcam Box

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Mrs MahadevanFebruary 15, 2015
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Although we still can’t see the main part of the Tree Sparrows’ nest, we know that they have been incubating a second clutch of eggs because the adults have been taking turns to spend long periods of time in the … Continue reading →

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Five Fledgling Tree Sparrows – B&W Birdcam Box

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Mrs MahadevanDecember 1, 2012
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By Wednesday morning (18th May) the nest box had become  a bit of a squeeze for the five Tree Sparrow chicks which had grown rapidly since they hatched just over two weeks previously. They started the morning with a lot of … Continue reading →

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