Tipton's Croft

A field in Shropshire, England

Month: April 2020

  • Eggs!

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    At last the two barn owls have done what comes naturally and we now have two eggs in the nest box. Hopefully some more to come over the next few days, then a month of waiting before the first one hatches. At least something good is going on at the moment!

  • Fight!

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    Here’s the stock dove minding its own business on the nest when a jackdaw comes in and tries to get the eggs. Dove 1 Jackdaw 0.

    Update 2020.04.11 Unfortunately the jackdaw eventually won when the dove decided enough was enough and abandoned the nest.

  • First egg of the year!

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    At last the new nest box is being used properly, but not by the owls. A squirrel has spent the past few days filling it with nest material and it has now laid an egg. Hopefully the first of a few (squirrels lay up to eight each year). Won’t be long before we have lots of cute little baby critters!

    OK, squirrels don’t lay eggs, except on April 1! Just for clarity, the squirrel did make the nest, but the egg is due to a stock dove who took it over when the squirrel left.