Towards the end of last week the male starling started
entering the box where great tits were nesting, taking out the moss the
great tit had used for its nest then taking in its own nesting material.
Not good news for the great tits who also kept entering the box and
bringing out the material the starling had brought in. It carried on for
two days and now the box is quiet and empty. The starlings are
incubating in their own box, hopefully, hatch about the beginning of May
and the great tits will find another box.
Another quiet walk from home
and came across three roe deer in a state of moult, two young does and a
buck who was also shedding the velvet from its antlers.
Sunday had a
distant view of my first 'passing through' wheatear also noted two
lapwings in their regular field and good numbers of skylarks.
On way
back home passed a holly-blue butterfly on holly, a speckled wood and
green-veined white butterfly.
Later at home a male orange-tip was
sharing the honesty with bee-flies.
Stewart.
Images Copyright : Stewart Dennis.
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