Kingfishers nesting in an English city garden

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Why had the nest been attacked this year whilst it survived for two broods last year.  The only reason we can think of is the smell.

From the photo you can see the stream of black effulent from the nest hole.  A fox should pick up the smell easily.  The hole had been dug right over the nest chamber and was only about 9 inches in diameter.  We suspect that having found the nest the fox located the chamber by the sound of the babies sometime after dawn, as the earth was freshly dug at 7 am.


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