The latest update on nest box monitoring:
Ooh, lots of activity for the end of April! Four boxes have hatched (all of them off the main pond: #2, #10, #7, #6). For Box #2, I flushed the hen, who gave me a broken wing distraction display… because there were ducklings in the box! Camera snafu, so I was not able to get a photo.
Meanwhile, Box #13, which looked to have been abandoned with a single egg, is now incubating 14 eggs; Box #84 is a new nest, also incubating. We have five boxes incubating at this point.
For May, our work days will be 10 May and 24 May. We can make 10 May our last day to check all the boxes; on the 24th, we can spot check just those that are still incubating….
Scots Gaelic is in my Google Translate (I was checking a sus etymology): Tapadh leat!