vicky@glos
Well-known member
Hi all,
Just noticed one of my local blue-tits is checking out one of my three bird boxes.
Last year I had great-tits in one box at the bottom of the garden. But the year before that they nested in the bird box near my front room window at the top of my garden.
Last year I had no blue-tits nesting as the year before they nested in the box that was near my kitchen window at the top of my garden. But a woodpecker came after the young bluetits and the adults left them to die. I just had to bin that birdbox as I could not bring myself to clear it out. I knew the youngesters would of been still inside and I did not want to look.
I tried woodshavings in the birdboxes over the winter to make them warm inside but nothing wanted to stay in the birdboxes over the winter.
So I have just cleared it all out and have but up two peanut bags with knitting wool in small peices inside ready for the next building season.
So should we have a (none prize) compitition to see who notices their garden birdboxes in use first ?
So shout if they are getting used !
Vicky@glos
Just noticed one of my local blue-tits is checking out one of my three bird boxes.
Last year I had great-tits in one box at the bottom of the garden. But the year before that they nested in the bird box near my front room window at the top of my garden.
Last year I had no blue-tits nesting as the year before they nested in the box that was near my kitchen window at the top of my garden. But a woodpecker came after the young bluetits and the adults left them to die. I just had to bin that birdbox as I could not bring myself to clear it out. I knew the youngesters would of been still inside and I did not want to look.
I tried woodshavings in the birdboxes over the winter to make them warm inside but nothing wanted to stay in the birdboxes over the winter.
So I have just cleared it all out and have but up two peanut bags with knitting wool in small peices inside ready for the next building season.
So should we have a (none prize) compitition to see who notices their garden birdboxes in use first ?
So shout if they are getting used !
Vicky@glos