For Paul Brookes’ challenge.

Redstart log

I admit, I haven’t been following the redstarts closely enough to know which day the chicks left, or even if they did. It’s possible they died, or a marten got them, as I never heard the loud cheeping that comes from large, impatient redstart chicks, nor did I see their first chaotic flight.
Despite the hedges and scores of trees in his land, old André, made a nesting box and hung it on a beam in the porch. I imagine it was because he and Georgette enjoyed watching nesting and young birds taking to the air. This is the first year the nesting box has been used by birds. Lizards, but never birds.
There are always redstarts nesting around the house, under the eaves, and last year they were in the hayloft. Not a very good choice as the cats get up there. When…