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We've been watching a couple of blue tits build there nest and then lay eggs, over the last few weeks, on our nest box camera. The female is now incubating more or less full time. The male regularly comes in and sits on her. Is that normal? I thought only the female sat on the nest...? Here they...

Hello Just wondered if anyone knew why a blue tit nest would disappear? We have a bird box with a camera and noticed that a pair of blue tits had started to nest in the box, they were bringing in straw and moss then yesterday when we got home from work we noticed the whole box had been emptied. Does...

Hi. Sorry if this isn't in the right place. I'm new and had problems working out how to post. A bird (I think bluetit) has made a beautiful moss nest in our wall mounted black metal letter box but I am worried that they will overheat and that maybe as there are as yet no eggs I should disturb...

Hi Everyone, I have a nestbox with a camera inside and was really excited last week when I saw that a nest had started to be built. However the female has been acting very strangely these last couple of days. She keeps going into the box and removing the nesting, then bringing it back in only to remove...

woaahh think i just saw a blue tit coming out 1 of my nest boxes!! yay can i do anything to make em feel comfortable enough to actually nest? i think they already might be yaaayyyy

this is my garden x So far i think these look very nice and fit in really nicely in my garden xxxxx. I`d still take any advice about nesting birds plus tips about nest boxes xx

again this is a pic of my garden, does anyone have advice on where the best place for a couple more bird houses/nest boxes would be? or is there a risk of having too many? i also have a side garden thats not visible on the pic but its about half the size of this 1 and is surrounded by the same fence...

Hi we have been living in the Bungalow now for 38 Years this Month, a Friend made us a Bird Box for Blue Tits just after we moved in. We have had Blue Tits in the Box every year but one, i am Disabled and was having a extra Bathroom built on to the house, we had the box on a tree but youngsters were...

Hi, we've had a pair of blue tits nesting in the box in our garden. Up until this year we've always had wrens and it was a nice change to have the tits. Mum and Dad were guarding the nest and flitting in and out very often to feed the chicks which we could hear cheeping (something my daughter...

Now 5 days since the adult bluetits visited the camera nestbox. I have taken it down (as adviced) and sadly have 4 dead chicks - only hatched approx 4 days ago. I removed the nest(work of art) planning to replace the box. Unfortunately the cable is faulty. Should I replace it in case the birds...

Hi all, Firstly ... Im new here so i hope i have posted in right place? And the reason im here is i purchased a nesting box with a camera and this year a couple of Blue tits have chosen our box to nest in ... nesting etc all complete and on Monday morning we woke to find an egg had been laid. Mrs...

Last year I put up 4 nest boxes and now 3 out of the 4 have nest materials in them. one of them has blue tits in,in the other tree sparrows and I am not sure about the third one, I'l have to keep a close eye on it.

This is getting curiouser and curiouser. My little Blue is still busy headbanging on the bottom of the nestbox. But now it is stripping off tiny slivers of wood. It takes a lot of effort to get one tiny sliver and then it seems to fly out of the nestbox with it only to return a short time later...

Ahh Gotcha. thanks for that Alan. Its easy when you know how isn't it!

Hi everyone. This is my first post, so forgive me if its not in the right place/format etc. I joined the RSPB about a month ago, and kindly received my nest box in the post a week later. The following day, it went up in the tree behind my garden and just 5 days later, after much inspection, a pair...

I am a newby to nest boxes and for the last couple of weeks, I have had a Blue Tit nesting in our nesting box but for the last couple of days I have not seen it :-( Do you think it has abandoned the nest or is something else going on as I don't know what the stages of nesting are? Please help

billybluetit Since last October we have had a roosting bluetit who has settled down each evening in our camera nestbox. We have absolutely loved having him and watching his little routines. A couple of nights ago he failed to come home! There have been signs of fighting in the box - lots of scattered...

We have a new camera nest box which has been up since January. For the past 2 weeks a blue tit has been arriving at 17.45 and sleeping in it overnight. Initially just on the bare boards. Now, a blue tit has started bringing nesting material in, mainly moss and is industriously pushing it into shape...

Nesting boxes are often used as roosts through the winter months. It is best to leave the box as it is now that blue tits are nest propecting as some are already set on nesting sites and may already have found a mate with a view to start nest building. The best time for nest box cleaning and maintenance...

since i last posted i have brought my first nest box all the ones before i had made hopfully i got in place in time you all been posting and all the birds you see seems so many compared with my garden but in the last two weeks i,ve see paires of blue tits great tits an mash tits no coal tits around...

Every morning for the past 2 weeks we have heard, what I think is Blue Tits tapping inside the box. I have had this box for at least 10 years now and it has moved house with me. The box has always been on the side of our property so we have heard this noise for many years. Every year but one we have...

Hi Everyone, Does anyone know how to attract birds to a nest box. I really need some advice. 1 Blue Tit this last summer just looked at the nest box and went away. HELP! Best Wishes, Superior Eagle

Hello Bekky A similar thing has happened to me before, i made a couple of boxes that were suitable for tits as well as a sparrow terrace, of course the blue tits chose to use the sparrow terrace. The sparrows have shown more interest in the starling box i made so it doesn't always work out as...

For every year as long as I can remember a pair of bluetits (I think it was the same pair though I'm not sure) have nested in a hollow washing pole in my garden. This year they failed to return and I don't know what has happened to them. Do you think the cold weather might have killed them? They...

Hi there and welcome to the forum! Unfortunately nest failure occurs regularly with our common garden birds and is one of the many trials and tribulations that they face. The eggs may have been infertile, they could have been affected by the period of cold weather that the UK experienced in early...