National Nest Box Week

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Didn't know if people are aware but it is currently National Nest Box Week until the 21st of feb and an ideal time to build/buy a nest box and put one up so if you're bored tomorrow then there is something to do

Myself i have put up 8 nestboxes in the last few weeks around the place. 6 around a local lake, spread out over a 4/5 acre area and 2 at work one of which is regularly being checked out by a Blue Tit already, seen him going in and out on a daily basis

This site has all the information

National Nest Box Week

[goosey]

My daughter has been making a Tit Box at school over the last few weeks but she broke her wrist Tuesday so she won't be bringing it home for a while -alas.

[leon-b]

i made two a little while ago, i have also put up some feeders, birds come every day to eat but i have never seen one enter the boxes
leon

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Originally Posted by leon-b

i made two a little while ago, i have also put up some feeders, birds come every day to eat but i have never seen one enter the boxes
leon

Give it time, they won't be nesting properly until April but will some and look around potential nesting sites now

[leon-b]

ok thanks
leon

[Elizabeth B]

We have roosting birds in our 2 of our 3 camera equipped boxes - a great tit in Box 1, and a bluetit in our new box that has a top camera and a side camera. The latter is a colour/infrared camera and this is the first time we've been able to watch after dark. I feel rather like a Peepng Tom! Our third box is inspected regularly by a pair of bluetits.

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth B

We have roosting birds in our 2 of our 3 camera equipped boxes - a great tit in Box 1, and a bluetit in our new box that has a top camera and a side camera. The latter is a colour/infrared camera and this is the first time we've been able to watch after dark. I feel rather like a Peepng Tom! Our third box is inspected regularly by a pair of bluetits.

I noticed last weekend when i went around to secure some boxes(they only had 2inch brass screws holding them, now they have 3inch exterior coach screws ) that a couple of the boxes had droppings in them, so obviously they have also been used for roosting have seen Blue Tits going into other boxes at dusk also.

[Susie]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth B

We have roosting birds in our 2 of our 3 camera equipped boxes - a great tit in Box 1, and a bluetit in our new box that has a top camera and a side camera. The latter is a colour/infrared camera and this is the first time we've been able to watch after dark. I feel rather like a Peepng Tom! Our third box is inspected regularly by a pair of bluetits.

Great picture I'd love it if you would post more during the spring if the boxes are used for nesting.

I wish your daughter a swift recovery, goosey.

[nightshade]

I have added 2 Tit boxes,a Robin box and a Schwegler FF1 Bat Box
Please do not forget that bats need boxes as well

[Elizabeth B]

Originally Posted by Susie

Great picture I'd love it if you would post more during the spring if the boxes are used for nesting.

A selection will be shown on our website - and if you go to Web Viewer in the Index on the home page, you can watch the live action (if any)! So far, since we started in 2001 we've only had one failed box, and this was when the female bluetit from Box 1 vanished when the nest was finished, and we were expecting to see the first egg at any time. The male kept visiting the box, and calling her for over a week. If you go to the diary entry for Saturday 24th April 2004, you'll be able to read the sad story.