32mm but just as important is the distance between the post and the feeder port, which is 105mm. I have feeders with the same distance between the posts but the starlings can easily reach through the bars with their long necks and beaks to reach the feeder port. I have not found a commercial feeder with a large enough distance between the bars and the feeder ports which is why I designed this one. Still in the testing phase but so far the starlings have not defeated it, although they are cunning birds :-)

@gavinlipscombe9706 Thanks Gavin. Making a large bird table and will use these measurements in my build today. Have surrounded my suet ball feeder with plastic mesh to trial 38mm square holes, just measured gap between mesh and feeder and that is 80mm. However I'm going off your design and increase it to 105mm. I already got a large roll of mesh with 38mm square holes hence trialling. Can easily buy a smaller mesh if this fails but will stick to 105mm from the mesh to the table itself. Thanks again.

@gavinlipscombe9706 Thanks Gavin. Making a large bird table and will use these measurements in my build today. Have surrounded my suet ball feeder with plastic mesh to trial 38mm square holes, just measured gap between mesh and feeder and that is 80mm. However I'm going off your design and increase it to 105mm. I already got a large roll of mesh with 38mm square holes hence trialling. Can easily buy a smaller mesh if this fails but will stick to 105mm from the mesh to the table itself. Thanks again.

No effects in this video, this is the capture straight out of the camera. The only editing was to cut out the uninteresting bits using avidemux.

32mm but just as important is the distance between the post and the feeder port, which is 105mm. I have feeders with the same distance between the posts but the starlings can easily reach through the bars with their long necks and beaks to reach the feeder port. I have not found a commercial feeder with a large enough distance between the bars and the feeder ports which is why I designed this one. Still in the testing phase but so far the starlings have not defeated it, although they are cunning birds :-)

This one: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004016628242.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.8.77671802LKIsxa This box has a 2.8mm lens, nest box 1 has a 3.6mm lens.

@@gavinlipscombe9706 Thank you Gavin and have a nice Day

This one: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004016628242.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.8.77671802LKIsxa This box has a 2.8mm lens, nest box 1 has a 3.6mm lens. These types of cameras do no run on solar power I have mine permanently connected to mains power.

@@gavinlipscombe9706 That looks like a webcam with good value for the price. I will definitely try to build my own. Thanks for the info :)

This is a $40 wifi camera bought from Aliexpress a few years ago. It was just described as a WIFi bird box camera, from HQCam official store. I have been very impressed and it has been running almost constantly for 2 years. It has outperformed the £150 plus cameras bought from the UK.

do you still have the link to the camera? thanks in advance

@@birdbrother880 www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004016628242.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.8.77671802LKIsxa - 2MP, 2.8mm or 3.6mm lens

thank you!

25mm

Generally nest building begins at the end of March, although it has been getting earlier over recent years, there are no caterpillars available for the female to feed the chicks until late March. February is the common time for searching for suitable nest sites. It's promising that nest box 1 is being visited daily but it's no guarantee that the Blue tit will choose this site.

Keep your USAcentric comments to yourself. The Starling is on the Red list, according to the RSPB

Found in a seal sanctuary shop, never seen them anywhere else.