July 2022

26 July 2022 Part1: ???? Yesterday evening I checked repeatedly to see if the female had left the nest – but each time she was […]

25 July 2022 Well, we (the female and me) both got that wrong!!! Yesterday afternoon, when checking on the nest again, I noticed that the […]

24 July 2022 A major milestone .   .   . better late than never! Just before 06:00 this morning, I heard the male’s soft hooting ‘food […]

19 July 2022 Still no chicks! Checked on the nest again yesterday evening and the female was incubating. Later, after she had left the nest, […]

18 July 2022 Is history repeating itself? Based on the laying date of the first egg, it should have either have hatched, or started hatching […]

06 July 2022 Early morning activity I hit the roof early this morning with my coffee and enjoyed the slowly growing dawn chorus. Birds already […]

01 July 2022 Settling in for the long haul In the last few days the behaviour of the female has changed. She is no longer […]