After a couple of days on its own, the last of the blue tits fledged yesterday. In all about 32 blue tit chicks fledged from 4 boxes. We now only have the great tits in box 3.  The internal mono camera has been replaced by a colour one and the external camera has been fixed […]

8 blue tits fledged from Box 1 on 26th May but not before a greater spotted woodpecker visited again. The great tit chicks started to hatch a couple of days ago in box 3. The blue tits started fledging 2 days ago from box 7. By yesterday there was only one left. It seems to […]

The woodpeckers are back and have visited box 7 a few times. Hopefully the reinforced front will keep them out. The blue tits have started to feed the chicks through the hole of box 1.

8 blue tits fledged from Box 5 on the 20th May. The nine blue tits, in box 4, fledged over two days with the last going this morning. It looks like those in box 1 will be the next to go with box 7 being the last of the blue tits in camera boxes. The […]

Strange. The young great tits in box 3 died a day after the female left. We thought it was the male returning. However, a bird started to bring in new nesting material. Initially, we thought that it had unearthed some unhatched eggs but there are now 4 eggs in the nest, probably new ones. Is […]

Box 1 – At least 6 chicks hatched a few days ago. Both parents feeding them. Box 3 – Seemed to be going well with chicks hatching 3 days ago. However, the female has not been seen since yesterday at about mid day. The male has been returning but is confused. He has sat on […]