NestCam Update

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We've had no visits inside the box since I last posted pictures from it. Not giving up hope yet, though, because last year things didn't kick off properly until 13th April.

I don't think there's much nesting activity going on up here yet - I've got both moss and wool in the garden and it hasn't been touched at all so far.

The garden is busy on-and-off: It's busy on cold days and then very quiet on the warmer/brighter days.

No pics from the garden at the moment - the closest hanging feeders currently contain nesting material - and no one seems to want that yet! I'm trying to keep the area near the nest box as quiet as I can so all food has been moved further away for a while.

So, until I can take some bird pics, here's one of Albert the greyhound enjoying a run on the beach. He wears a muzzle off-lead at the moment as he's still got a very strong chasing instinct - which currently includes small dogs called Frou-Frou. Once he understands they're not rabbits or hares I'll be able to throw the muzzle away!

I Just Knew It....

"I've not turned the lights on in the box today," I said, while sitting in the car on the way to Edinburgh, "something's bound to go in..."

A Little More from Nestcam

A brief visit from a (the same?) Blue Tit this morning. He or she was in and out pretty quickly - but spent a while around the entrance hole.

Looking at last year's dates, the first recorded visit (Great Tit) was at the beginning of April (although my motion detection settings weren't sensitive enough so I could have missed many visits) with the first of the nesting material brought into the box late in the day on April 13th - so we have a long wait yet...

Nestcam 2008

We had the first recorded visit to the nest box today - a Blue Tit!

The lights in the box aren't working at the moment - not that they seem to make much difference anyway - but we'll get them sorted at the weekend. We bought the stuff needed yesterday - it's just a quick soldering job.

So, just before 11am a Blue Tit arrived and had a quick look around the gaff.

Last year we had Great Tits nesting - wonder who'll take up residence this year? Fingers crossed someone does!