by Oregano
@ 2008-04-30 - 00:38:01
We have had a nesting box on the side of our house for about 5 years. The design was supposed to encourage house sparrows - ironically something that I recall the RSPB nestboxes of the late 1960s sought to avoid! - but has been inhabited by tits. On three occasions blue tits have nested but with only one successful brood. Last year a pair of great tits nested successfully.
We try to avoid peeking in - the last thing we want is for the parents to panic and abandon their brood - but last Saturday we saw that they brood has hatched. Both parents are working hard to bring in food.
2008-04-30 @ 09:00