We have some Coal tits that nest in our bat box which is attached to our summer house.
When we first bought the house I spotted this ugly looking box attached to the front on the summer house and was going to take it down. I was telling a family member about it and she said not to touch it until she had been round to look as it sounded like a bat box and we could have bats in there.
Before the visit, I opened the summer door house and had fluttering around my head. Thinking it was bats I was screaming and flapping. Mr Purple Rose was stood laughing at me and said it was birds coming out of the ugly box.
So our bat box does not house bats. It houses Coal tits. We have lots of different tits that visit our garden. Coal tits and Grand Tits. I cannot see them all living in the one bat box so they must nest very nearby.
When I was small we had a robin that used to virtually live on the top of a brick pillar in our verandah. We new it was the same robin because fit only had one leg. It was a very sad day when it disappeared and never returned.
I am lucky to have a variety of tits coming to my garden. Great tits, Coal tits, Blue tits, Willow tits and Long tailed tits. Each one so different in habit to each other. I also have a robin which has mastered the art of hanging onto the fat ball feeders to eat, the rest rely on the seed tray.
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When we first bought the house I spotted this ugly looking box attached to the front on the summer house and was going to take it down. I was telling a family member about it and she said not to touch it until she had been round to look as it sounded like a bat box and we could have bats in there.
Before the visit, I opened the summer door house and had fluttering around my head. Thinking it was bats I was screaming and flapping. Mr Purple Rose was stood laughing at me and said it was birds coming out of the ugly box.
So our bat box does not house bats. It houses Coal tits. We have lots of different tits that visit our garden. Coal tits and Grand Tits. I cannot see them all living in the one bat box so they must nest very nearby.
I also have a robin which has mastered the art of hanging onto the fat ball feeders to eat, the rest rely on the seed tray.