You may have noticed work going on at the Watchpoint Hide recently, which has left various windows still without any glass. It hasn’t taken nature very long to take advantage of this, but I’m quite surprised by the nature involved. I would have expected mice, rats or even stock doves to move in if the building had been left unattended for a while, but it hasn’t. What we do have is a female sparrowhawk taking her supper in there and roosting for the night, leaving bits of starling for us to find in the mornings.
The female sparrowhawk currently residing in the Wildlife Watchpoint Hide,
by Lockhart Horsburgh.
This sparrowhawk has been around a lot recently, feeding on goldfinches and great tits taken from the feeding station, but it appears that for supper, she likes to dine on one of the starlings that roost in the reedbeds. Unfortunately, the blood stains left behind aren’t really the right kind of wood stain for all that lovely Siberian larch.
Soon, visitors will be able to sit outside the hide and view the wildlife inside it.
Giving nature a home.