Jackdaw Hole: nesting bird

[topcat]

Please stay away from Jackdaw Hole for the next couple of months. A bird has nested right in line with the srt drop......

 TC

 

[wellyjen]

The obvious question. Are they jackdaws?

 

[topcat]

No, but they are Schedule 1.............very protected.

 

[Pitlamp]

Which SRT drop, Topcat? It's a very big hole with assorted ways to descend.

 

[mikem]

Best off just staying away: "It is an offence to intentionally disturb any of these species during the breeding season without a valid licence."

 

[topcat]

Which SRT drop, Topcat? It's a very big hole with assorted ways to descend.

I only know of the ladder route down the gully, which looks just horrible, and the srt route which starts at the now dead tree. There was a spit just over the lip to minimise rope rub.
There are now resin anchors below the lip and at the ledge.

But as mikem says.....leave well alone for now.....

I'm doing some conservation work down there which is how I discovered the birds. It will have to wait. It would be very ironic if cave conservation work interfered with Schedule 1 breeding!!

 

[AR]

No, but they are Schedule 1.............very protected.

Going by that, I suspect they eat jackdaws...

 

[Allan]

Going by that, I suspect they eat jackdaws...

I know of a pair who normally nest in a quarry in Wales, their preferred diet used to be racing pigeons and they ignored the resident Jackdaws. When the racing pigeon route was changed due to obvious losses, they turned on their erstwhile neighbours the Jackdaws, result a lot less Jackdaws.

 

[thehungrytroglobite]

No, but they are Schedule 1.............very protected.

Unfortunately lots of people in the Dales kill them (yes, it's illegal, but these sorts of people think the law doesn't apply to them). Best to keep these things on the DL. Hopefully none of those monsters people are on UKC!

 

[Jim MacPherson]

A few years ago, in the garden, a mob of jackdaws went after and killed a blackbird fledgeling so I'm not that sympathetic and magpies will bully jackdaws off bird feeders. Nature in all it's survivalist glory?

Jim

 

[mikem]

They have still massively increased in numbers since most cavers were born

 

[thehungrytroglobite]

They have still massively increased in numbers since most cavers were born

I was referring to the birds in question... not Jackdaws!

 

[mikem]

So was I, although jackdaws and magpies have also increased

 

[Ed]

Nesting quiet nicely in Bradford and Keighley to.