Summer's Over... And Now, The Good News

As the weather starts to turn, GARY BRALSFORD has been busy stripping the flights of nest-boxes and nesting material, though two species have proved to be late bloomers. He also reports on some special birds kept by his friends, and a pleasing message from the AS

 

BIRDKEEPERS should be preparing their birds for winter now that autumn is upon us. I have removed all nest-boxes and nest material from the flights, apart from my pair of African yellow zosterops (Zosterops senegalensis), which built a nest and were sitting tight on three eggs at the time of writing. My broad-ringed zosterops (Z. poliogastrus), also known as montane white-eyes, did the same and were sitting on three eggs. If these fail to come off, then they will be stopped until next spring.