Popping Corks in Padley Gorge

Springwatch at Longshaw: more background from Bill's Mother's.

Checking the cork size for a Padley Gorge nest box

One of last year’s Springwatch stories covered the climate-related problems of Pied Flycatchers arriving in Derbyshire, only to find their nest holes from last year full of aggressive Great Tits.

A few years earlier, those over wintering Great Tits would have fledged their brood and gone by late April.

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