Blue Tit Roosting In My Nestbox (1 Viewer)

A Blue Tit (at least I think that's what it is, check out the pic) has been roosting in my nest box every night for the last couple of weeks, is this normal for November?

John

I'd say yes.
They (along with other tits, wrens, nuthatches etc) will use all manner of holes, often in numbers, to roost. Several tits use holes under my tiles regularly at the moment, in one case that we can see from the kitchen going into the hole at almost exactly the same time every evening!

Thanks MTem. This one arrives and leaves at the same time everyday, hopefully there will be eggs in the spring!

Hi Ashford,

I put up a swift nest box in the early summer of 2014 complete with a wireless nest box camera linked to our house cctv system which records to a hard drive. We didn't get any swifts nesting but in early November last year we discovered a Bluetit coming in to roost every night around dusk and leaving around dawn every morning.
Amazingly 'he' has come back every night since, apart from 25 days in May this year when we think he must have been helping to raise chicks somewhere.
He's still coming back ( we've knicknamed him Arnie as "he'll be back" |=)||=)|) and we check every night before we go to bed to check he's there.

I don't know if this is some sort of record but we've found it quite entertaining, especially watching him preen and turn into a fluffy yellow tennis ball every night !
I don't know how long he'll keep this up but we'll be sad the day he stops coming back.

Norm

Having trouble adding more than one thumbnail, here's the other one I was going to add !

Norm