Female Kestrel on telegraph pole

Kestrel pair perched

Male Kestrel in next box

More than a month earlier than last year, Kestrels paid my nest box a surprise visit this week! After I hurriedly cleared the box of an old squirrel’s drey, the female immediately returned to inspect the new bedding. (Photos digiscoped through living room window)
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Grey Heron

Fieldfare feeding on windfall apples.

Fifteen Fieldfare feeding on windfall apples.

Was feeling a bit nesh today, so I made do with a bit of arm chair birding; a flock of 95 Fieldfare greatly appreciated the windfall apples I put out for them but the highlight of the day was a skein of circa 380 Pink-footed Geese that flew west early afternoon.
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Sparrowhawk on lawn

Hen Harrier over fields

Osprey flying over

Red Kite perched in tree with two magpies

Spent most of 2024 birding from my garden; it's amazing what turned up during my DIY and gardening breaks!
Hoping for more of these in 2025! 🤞
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Yes, look at my previous post of the similar designed nest box made from my old blackboard I had in my lab.

The nest box is in fact based on a nest I found when I was 14 near a place called Badger in Shropshire.
The nest was in an oak tree with the nest hole itself being about 10 feet up. This lead to a downward leading 'tunnel', the end of which expanded into a nesting chamber.

Little Owl nest box

Finally finished my Deluxe Little Owl nest box today.
I hope they appreciate the effort!
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Pink footed geese

Pink feet over the garden heading west towards Ogston at 10:50
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Little Owl diving down from nest box.

Little Owl feeding two chicks in nest box.

Little Owl flying towards nest box with a mouse

Dilapidated Little Owl nest box on the grass.

17 breeding seasons and 42 chicks later, my recycled classroom blackboard finally gave up the ghost.
I’ll hopefully have a ‘new improved’ version up very soon!
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Even at 80%, I still have the same problem with St Treecreeper and Green Sandpipers.

Out of interest, does the PUC allow you to set the 'confidence levels' as with BirdNET-Pi? I've set mine to 80%; this might mean some detections are not recorded but it does save time going through a large number of false positives.

A table showing a single bird recording record

Same here; my BirdNET-Pi has recorded a single pied wagtail this morning and nothing since yesterday at noon 😂
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Sun rays through mist

Telegraph pole in snow

Birch tree

Pied Wagtail on satellite dish

Lovely light from the garden this morning.
30 species: highlights included 6 Grey Partridge (down from 14 in Oct), 2 Raven, 16 Lapwing, and 1 Snipe.
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Apples on lawn

Fieldfare in the snow

Plenty of Redwing and Fieldfare around the garden at the moment; I was surprised that only one or two came down to the meal I'd prepared for them 🤔

Pair of binoculars

They are in better shape than the bins I saved up for in the 1970's! 🙂

I used to use my daughter's violin rosin.

I would if they made the locations safer for the immunocompromised