I have placed 33 boxes in the wet woodland (carr) around the reserve at Morfa Berwig, another 11 to go up but the area I've selected looks a bit of a jungle challenge so I'll set some time aside to tackle them.
We had a good deal on the boxes, some of them are a bit fancy for the purposes of a survey but good quality and at a third of the retail price I can't complain.
Twelve of the boxes are supported by Bynea Primary School and have been individually marked with the names of the pupils who selected the random numbers; Isabel the county Biodiversity officer has set the pupils some challenges over the winter period all connected with the project, hopefully it will give them a fuller understanding of the natural process of life, and death.
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| No 19, Bynea Primary School |
The new "telescopic" ladder worked really well to place a box at height (hopefully for Spotted Flycatchers to use), the other boxes are at a workable height so negating the need to carry a ladder around when checking them in the spring.
I've doctored one box to try and encourage Willow Tits to use, these birds are very fussy and prefer to excavate their own nest hole in a rotten trunk, so I've covered the box in bark and filled it with sawdust and wood chips we know that there are Willow Tits on site as I caught one a few months ago.
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| Willow Tit box? |
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