I couldn't look.........

.....as Ian climbed a tree and then moved along a thin branch to get to a Carrion Crow's nest to ring the chicks within.

 Ian up 'the' tree

Carrion Crow

Earlier in the day Nikki, Ian and I had been to our nest box sites in the Hodder Valley and on Rawcliffe Moss. In the Hodder Valley we ringed 27 Blue Tits, 28 Great Tits, 8 Nuthatch and 5 Blackbirds. On Rawcliffe Moss we ringed 12 Tree Sparrows and at Fleetwood the aforementioned 4 Carrion Crows.

Great Tit