It is -14°C outside and everything Is covered in a Crisp layer of Snow. I am full of both excitement and fear. Will I be fit enough? Will I cope with the cold? Will my cold clear up enoough to allow me to enjoy this experience?

I guess I will find out soon.

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And then the exciting moment when both blue tits were in the box together. Watch closely - it wasn’t a very long moment! Seems like in the blue tit world, two’s a crowd.

You can often tell when there is a blue tit at the doorway as the light levels start fluctuating a lot. See how the more manic bird, whom Sophie has named Buzz, seems to crouch and cower as Karma stands at the door just before his/her great entrance.

Siskins have become quite a regular visitor to the garden recently, and love the new pond. This morning we also saw a thrush at the bird bath, moving on to the pond after that. This is unusual - we don’t see many thrushes in the garden at all. Earlier in the week I’m pretty sure I saw a grey wagtail too. It was sitting on the shed gutter, then flew off to the pond where it did that classic wagtail bob.

6 siskins
2 robins
1 goldfinch
1 dunnock
3 blackbirds
2 blue tits
5 starlings
6 sparrows
1 wren
2 collared doves
1 wood pigeon.

We’ve got some wonderful new blue tit film… watch this space!

But only a few minutes later the nest box was occupied once again. The visitor’s behaviour this time was much more like the bird we saw last week, manically checking out every corner of the nest box. So now we’re thinking that there are two different blue tits popping in. We see two hanging around the tree quite a bit, but what we don’t know is whether they’re a pair, or two of the same sex arguing about who’s going to have this prime site.