Spring has started at the Alto Tajo Natural Park, Guadalajara, Spain. Yesterday we could film this female Eurasian Nuthatch building its nest by plastering an old Great Spotted Woodpecker’s hole
Nuthatches are cavity-nesters, using holes in trees in most of the cases. A minority of them are self-excavated, being most of the nests placed in a pre-existing natural cavity or in another species’ old nest, frequently a woodpecker’s one. As they need a smaller entrance size to...