| We opened the tits nesting box last week and removed the dead young. The nest has now been replaced on the wall; sometimes a Coal tit will use an old nest, and I've seen the odd Coal tit in the garden, so fingers crossed. If unused over the next few months we will remove and discard the nest, though is occurs to me that nature isn't quite so fussy. (P.S. I've uploaded a picture of the nest into the Birds category of the Gallery - the colours and construction are beautiful and the nest was about 12cm (5in) deep). |