A lot of activity in the garden, this month, with adults collecting food, then later young birds following parents around, begging to be fed and then chicks foraging for themselves. We wanted birds to continue to see the garden as a safe place for the youngsters and only had the net open on a couple of days and made more use of the ground traps. It was interesting to see that the birds here seem to be much better at navigating their way out of the walk-in traps than those we used to catch in our South Buckinghamshire garden.
The male Blackbird was seen several times with 4 well grown youngsters towards the end of the month.
Total: 32 (7)
Woodpigeon - 1
Robin - 4 (1)
Dunnock - 5 (2)
Blackbird - 5 (3)
Blue Tit - 0 (1)
House Sparrow - 2
Starling - 15