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Simon King talks about the diversity of insects and birds to be found in upland Welsh oak woods in spring. Pied flycatcher are one of the oak woodland's summer migrant specialists. Wood warblers are less striking in plumage but make up for it in song, with a stunning trill that comes down from the canopy. One final migrants that specialise here is the redstart, a bird you'd expect to see in tropical rainforest, but are found here in the British oak woods. Simon King is excited to find that a pair of redstarts have nested not in their preferred site of a covert hole deep in a cavity, but quite exposed on the outside of a tree. This means there may be a chance to film their family life with a nest cam - but to avoid disturbing the birds, this won't be able to be installed until the eggs have hatched.