How sad! He was definitely a patriarch, with 34 chicks.

That's an interesting comment on mourning. I'm not sure if it was mourning or just confusion, but I sure remember how Dot.ca stood on the SE corner of the nestbox for over an hour after Unity was killed, looking down Broad Street at the spot where she died. Then Beauty came back that evening and Pigott took up residence at BS, and all hell broke loose! What a time that was! Beauty and Dot.ca are such a good team now that it's hard to imagine they had a such a rocky start three years ago.