A bird box can be a dangerous place... photos from Saturday morning after the Blue Tits have been setting up home for about a week:
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| Is breakfast ready? | A nice sharp beak | Open wide! |
This was the morning before I fitted a narrow metal entrance plate to protect the Blue Tit's nest. The blue tits continued bringing moss to their nest, these are from Friday:
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| More nest material | Get in there! | Off again... |
There are lots of cute action shots!
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| Blue tit posing | Leaping out & up | Dropping out |
More moss on Saturday:
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| More for the nest | And more... | Off again |
But then, just before 5pm, an invasion began! Sound would have been great...
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| Incoming rival | Or two. | Looks like a tree sparrow |
The blue tits got their nest back quickly that time, but the sparrows returned and one stood guard:
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| Comfy. | Blue tit returns... | Surprise! |
The sparrow(s) continued to hold the nest undisputed for about an hour, perhaps occupying it in shifts. The Blue Tits did dispute this, but the occupying sparrow left at 6:30, just before the male woodpecker returned:
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| Male Greater Spotted Woodpecker |
The dispute continued after the wood pecker left, with a sparrow in occupation until I arrived to fit a 25mm face plate (primarily to deter the
wood peckers seen earlier in the week), which scared it off.
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| Fitting nest box face plate |
That should block the wood peckers and the sparrows, I just hope the Blue Tits are not put off. I've enjoyed going through the day's action which was recorded by
Motion, working out what happened - but it does generate thousands of shots!
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