Several nightjar nests found and predation.

We have found several nest and have now ringed some nestlings to. We have much predation and at one nest we rigged a trailcam and luckily (or not luckily) that nest was predated. When I look at images from trailcam suddenly a Buzzard poses in front of the cam. And to the Pictures after that there was no nestlings left. In the evening the adults came to the nest and found it empty.

 Two nestlings in this nest was around a week old.

 Close up nestling.

  Close up nestling.

 

 The male was caught to the nest and was a recover from 2013 and was ringed in another place a bit away.

 The nest with trailcam the night before predation. Two chicks and one adult.

 The predator was a Buzzard and the nest is just behind him.

Night after the male is looking for the nestlings.