I
don't know how many times this great tit has come back to look at Box1.
Should we make the hole bigger again now? It is 28mm, a size that the
RSPB and the BTO both recommend for nesting great tits. Our birds
appear to know better!Or perhaps we just feed them too well!
The
second visit of the day. Well the second after we had switched the
cameras on!
He
flies away again, frustrated by the small hole.
Another
view of a bluetit coming into land on Box3! Not only are its wings
furled but you can't see its feet either!
It
lands cleanly as usual.
It
doesn't go inside though. In fact, none of this box's visitors have
entered the box since I moved it!
A
picture from our bird table. It's not only the tit family that can
show a pretty feather!
This
time it's a bluetit looking at Box1. Remember that if I make the
hole big enough for a great tit, the bluetits will have little chance of
winning the box for their nest site. Great tits are sufficiently
bigger to make their victory in a head to head battle pretty certain.Still, if we hadn't had a great tit brood last year, we wouldn't have had any chicks fledge!
Again,
he didn't enter the box.
Another
great tit visit.
It's
a full minute later before he flies off.
Finally,
a picture from out Fat Feeder. For the last few days we have regularly
had a group of long tailed tits eating from it. At one time we had as
many as 6 of these birds.Now, how could we get one of these birds to nest in a camera equipped site here?