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Feb 15th, 2009 by Chris

Welcome back! The 2009 nesting season is almost upon us and things are looking interesting around the nest box.

Over the winter a great tit has taken to roosting in the box most nights. We’ve been wondering what would happen come spring.

Lately, a pair of blue tits have been hanging around quite a lot. Yesterday I saw both a blue tit and a great tit in the cherry tree where the nest box is sited, looking almost as if they were sizing each other up. Well today both blue tits have been in and out of the box, carefully cleaning up the poo the great tit has left over the winter. They clearly have designs on the nest box. And tonight, the great tit is roosting in it once more. Stay tuned to find out what happens…

and in other news…

We were given another camera for Christmas, a weatherproof infra red and colour one. I’ve just set it up overlooking the pond. The picture isn’t as sharp as the nestbox camera but I’m really looking forward to seeing what goes on around the pond at night. Not much at this time of year of course, but it’s warming up.

Tags: blue tit, great tit, nest, nest box, roosting

Posted in Garden, NestCam

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