The first weekend in April and two of three nests are occupied and a third is being scoped out. There are two new nests which I hadn't followed last year (in this video) and those are occupied. Both had one mate on the nest and I could hear the other calling at the second nest.
I think both the ones on the nests were females. The male has a fairly prominent brown "ascot" on it's upper chest.
The third nest, the one which I have followed the last couple of years, didn't have a mate on the nest but some people have seen one on a tree near the nest.
There are two other nests. One I showed last year has a very deep bowl and while it didn't appear occupied, even last year when it was, it was difficult to see anything but the head of one of the parents. The last is so close to the road and either the box was only recently erected (I only spotted it at the end of last season) or no mating pairs have been interested in it. There is very little nesting material in the nest.
Rating: User: Mudhooks 2008-04-06T23:59:33.12Z
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