Tree Creeper
A collection of images of Tree Creepers mainly from a local nature reserve. More will added over time.
The female Tree Creeper can be identified by the damaged right hand tail feathers. I assume this occured due to the bird being responcible for the nest bulding and brooding of the eggs and turning around in the nest cavit. Due to fecal sacks now being seen removed, this pair of birds are now feeding young.
Over the weeks watching this pair of birds I noticed that if both adult birds arrived together to feed the young, the male paused and allowed the female to enter the nest first. Between them, the parents visited the nest with food on average 40 times an hour. Four young eventually were seen in the nest cavity and the last left the nest at around 10.15am May 5th.
Within four days of the young leaving the nest, the female began building a second nest while continueing to feed the young in the immediate area. She is now incubating a second brood at time of writing (25th May) and is continued to be fed on occasion by the male.
I have written an article about this pair of Tree Creepers for the magazine Bird Watching. I will give the date of publication as soon as I know when.
To update the Tree Creepers, They have had a second brood which left the nest today ( 22nd June ) I do not know how many young they had this time. The magazine artilce was also published today In Bird Watching, a coincidence with their young fledging.
The female Tree Creeper can be identified by the damaged right hand tail feathers. I assume this occured due to the bird being responcible for the nest bulding and brooding of the eggs and turning around in the nest cavit. Due to fecal sacks now being seen removed, this pair of birds are now feeding young.
Over the weeks watching this pair of birds I noticed that if both adult birds arrived together to feed the young, the male paused and allowed the female to enter the nest first. Between them, the parents visited the nest with food on average 40 times an hour. Four young eventually were seen in the nest cavity and the last left the nest at around 10.15am May 5th.
Within four days of the young leaving the nest, the female began building a second nest while continueing to feed the young in the immediate area. She is now incubating a second brood at time of writing (25th May) and is continued to be fed on occasion by the male.
I have written an article about this pair of Tree Creepers for the magazine Bird Watching. I will give the date of publication as soon as I know when.
To update the Tree Creepers, They have had a second brood which left the nest today ( 22nd June ) I do not know how many young they had this time. The magazine artilce was also published today In Bird Watching, a coincidence with their young fledging.
