Besides the 4 am cawing, which I assume won't be an issue, it's all fun and games living next to a rookery until fledging time, especially in a poor year, when they end up on the ground and need rescuing. Before you know it, you'll be picking them off that road and hoying them back up a tree...

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Sadly no LSW left at Monks Wood, but I get to see them at Białowieża (alongside Black, White-backed, Middle Spotted, Three-toed, GSW, Grey-headed, Green, Wryneck - sometimes many of them on the same day!).

Both species occur on Hokkaido, but only Willow Tit on Honshu.

Close, but it's actually a Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris).

It's a Coal Tit. Willow Tits are extinct in Somerset.

Sorry, but flight calls of Cranes or Whooper Swans beat any goose. Geese are a bit yappy ;)

Ah. This is the 4th I've seen since wednesday. Not sure i can report via normal channels (confidentiality issues on the land), but can send you an email?

Haven't seen any Cranes yet. They're unpredictable in our survey squares.

Signs are still up locally for swan feeding (yellow road signs). I've seen 3 dead Whoopers this week in arable fields in region around Welney, not under wires (the usual cause). No sick birds, though.

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Bit restrictive(?), but then how about 'heirs' - it even rhymes with forebears!

"Future generations" usually covers it.

Contamination by rodenticides is very broad & widespread. Passerines, invertebrates, many predator pathways. Most birds of prey are contaminated. The industry's own watchdog has called out the rampant illegal use, which is basically uncontrollable/unenforced: bpca.org.uk/news-and-blo...

Yeah, but I saw a Green Woodpecker today, so nerr! :D