Good to see them back at the box at the Sewage Works, the female has already more or less stopped hunting with the male now providing, much the same as Peregrines.
Its hopefully a sign of imminent egg laying, I’m seeing the male around site hunting, reliable source of food on wet days seem to be earth worms.
I also saw the female slip down from the nest box the other day and eat a couple off the road; I would imagine they do have a very wide range of prey.
For some reason or other they only had a single juvenile last year, most years are 3 to 4 so not sure what happened there. I can’t see it being a food shortage, they are a pretty resilient and adaptable little raptor, so may be that she is getting a little long in the tooth and fertility may have become an issue.
I haven’t seen the Common Buzzards for a while and the Sparrowhawks are elusive as ever, hope to catch them displaying again.
We will see what 2021 brings.
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