Bluetit Diary    May 2026 (12)

 

 

Monday 18th May 2026

This is a final note concerning chicks and woodpeckers.

The day following Olive's chicks fledging we again had a visit from the GSW.

I suppose a woodpecker has to get food to feed its chicks from somewhere.  I just wish it wasn't at the expense of my nestlings!

Before it flew off, the woodpecker collected some of the bedding material, so clearly any chick still in the box and huddling down near the exit hole would have been at risk.  We were lucky!