Our nest boxes are in use again this year. The tit box on my garden shed is occupied and the parents are back and forth feeding young (click on photos to enlarge)..
An open fronted nest box on the back of my garage is occupied by a blackbird sitting on eggs. She abandoned this last year, fingers crossed for this brood..
Ive started putting live mini mealworms out for them and Ive put a guard around the bird table to stop the pigeons pinching them all...
I have a robin nesting in my pegbag on a rotary washing line, it's wonderful to see, but means I can't hang any washing out For the next few weeks! Also in this windy weather it's swinging all over the place.
that's soo sweet wilma, i saw a filmed report on social media of a garden centre and among other things they sold mens tweed hats and one had a robin nesting in it, they didn't seem to mind all the people in the garden centre.
i put a nest box up for blue tits near the top of the 6ft fence and i'm always in the garden and they just fly on by me, the chicks are so load now i can hear them quite a way away, fills me with delight watching them, i'm going to build some other boxes too as i have have visiting blackbirds and robins too.
i was watching a blackbird today flying and it was being chased in the sky by a couple of crows/rooks, why would they be doing that i wonder ?
We put a bird box up in September time last year (just after we moved in) nothing is using it this year, so fingers crossed for next year! Did you put anything into your bird boxes to help make a nest or do the birds take it all in themselves?
Leave it empty, let the birds do their thing. They may only remove anything you put in anyway. Some creeping planting such as clematis, honeysuckle would help make the box look more secreted. Also check the size of the hole, make sure its large enough for tits.
We have two of the soft wicker type nest boxes under the porch roof, wrens moved in. Magpies tried getting into them, so we put some green plastic mesh across the front which stopped the attacks this year the mesh got filled with old leaves by a Robin that covered the wrens boxes, but little wrens are still in therethey tend to stay over winter.
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Our nest boxes are in use again this year. The tit box on my garden shed is occupied and the parents are back and forth feeding young (click on photos to enlarge)..
An open fronted nest box on the back of my garage is occupied by a blackbird sitting on eggs. She abandoned this last year, fingers crossed for this brood..
Ive started putting live mini mealworms out for them and Ive put a guard around the bird table to stop the pigeons pinching them all...
I have a robin nesting in my pegbag on a rotary washing line, it's wonderful to see, but means I can't hang any washing out For the next few weeks! Also in this windy weather it's swinging all over the place.
that's soo sweet wilma, i saw a filmed report on social media of a garden centre and among other things they sold mens tweed hats and one had a robin nesting in it, they didn't seem to mind all the people in the garden centre.
i put a nest box up for blue tits near the top of the 6ft fence and i'm always in the garden and they just fly on by me, the chicks are so load now i can hear them quite a way away, fills me with delight watching them, i'm going to build some other boxes too as i have have visiting blackbirds and robins too.
i was watching a blackbird today flying and it was being chased in the sky by a couple of crows/rooks, why would they be doing that i wonder ?
Crows will rob bird's eggs and fledglings - maybe the blackbird had been defending its nest?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tits are happily feeding on the live mini mealworms and taking them straight to the nest
We put a bird box up in September time last year (just after we moved in) nothing is using it this year, so fingers crossed for next year! Did you put anything into your bird boxes to help make a nest or do the birds take it all in themselves?
Leave it empty, let the birds do their thing. They may only remove anything you put in anyway. Some creeping planting such as clematis, honeysuckle would help make the box look more secreted. Also check the size of the hole, make sure its large enough for tits.
We have two of the soft wicker type nest boxes under the porch roof, wrens moved in. Magpies tried getting into them, so we put some green plastic mesh across the front which stopped the attacks
this year the mesh got filled with old leaves by a Robin that covered the wrens boxes, but little wrens are still in there
they tend to stay over winter.
I once watched a wren enter the tit box, only to find a tit already in there. Both flew out is shock.
Thanks Lead Farmer, since we took that picture we've been busy planting in the garden so its a bit less exposed
I just double checked the size of the hole its 32mm which (according to the RSPB) is big enough for house sparrows but not big enough for starlings!