The recent cold grip of winter has meant plenty of action on
the bird feeders in the garden.
The most popular feeder by far is the peanut one, while the
seeds feeder just outside the garden is regularly finished off within 48 hours.
While the birds regularly feeding in the garden includes
blue tit, great tit, robin, blackbird, dunnock, long tailed tit and goldfinch,
the house sparrow flock is rarely seen.
I presume this is because they’ve found a bigger flock and
therefore a bigger resource of food nearby, possibly around the farms nearby.
One of the more interesting developments is there appears to
be two blue tits regularly checking out the garden in general, with some focus
on the main nest box area.
I saw the main nest box, I mean the next box that’s had a
nest in for the last ten years, being eyed up, but who will get there first?
Will the blue tit pair secure the nest box this year? It
would appear they are favourites, but only time will tell.
I suspect the house sparrows will return and nest in the
triple nest box, while I’m more hopeful of a robin pair selecting one of the
hidden nest boxes, perhaps the one in the ivy that has been trained to grow
down one side of the garden.
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In the meantime maintenance on the nest box cameras now
becomes urgent!
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