Okay I admit it, I was late putting up the nest boxes! However it doesn’t seem to have mattered too much!
I put the boxes up on the Sunday afternoon, on the Tuesday I had a message from home saying ‘There are Blue Tits in the nest box!’ by the Saturday they were taking in nesting material 🙂 This has created a lot of interest in the kitchen – the best place to see them from. I thought they might like a helping hand so have been collecting moss from the grass at work. The Carrion Crows dig it up looking for leatherjacket larvae I believe and leave it in piles all over the place so I just scoop it up and bring it home! I had been putting it in a fat ball feeder which they had been happily collecting it from but have now bought a specific holder for nesting material. They have now been building their nest for nearly 2 weeks. I wish I had bought a nest box with a camera in it!!
Winter has come and gone very quickly this year and I fear Spring will do the same. As I write this, Spring is well underway and I am just trying to catch up with my Winter photos. A lot has happened in the last few months which has meant my blog posting has been less frequent than I would like!
So Autumn is now over and we have moved into Winter. Its been so mild this year that it’s really only just started to feel like Winter!
Back in the New Year I decided that a blog about the seasons would be a nice addition to the website. It would also be a good reason to venture out in the evenings and take notice of our ever changing surroundings.
Looking for specific habitats has led to a few discoveries that I didn’t know about. The river canal that wasn’t filled with water or boats but had lots of rabbits and their kits nearby. The walk to Uffington White Horse turned out to be an occasion to watch Red Kites souring over the hills hunting down dinner! And the Nature Reserve 10 miles down the road that has hides to watch a wide variety of birds including Herons and Cormorants.
