Day 25 Visits - Blue Tit Bird Watching

[@AllainAnthonyOcceno]

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[@AllainAnthonyOcceno]

Les than a minute . Let himdrink

[@alexeyakulovich4737]

Hi. It is very interesting for me. I am from Montreal, so we still have pretty cold weather over here. It is second year I build a few different bird houses starting last spring but probably I placed few of these houses too late while other ones are still not populated. To tell you true I am a bit disappoinetd. This year I moved one to differrent place but with a lot of birds around in rural area but as I checked a week ago it was still available. I suspect it its because I placed a plastic protection entrance tube to be sure squerrels and other predators will not destroy a nest. A week ago I placed another 4 bird house and up to now I do not have any information about bird visits. I hope they will. What kind of camera did you use to monitor birds?

[@LifeInTheNest]

Thanks for your comment Alex, unfortunately they left our nest last month :( after 30 days visit they decided not to stay. Other bluetits are coming in and out though, and I am planning to make a lesson video soon. I can give you some suggestions: -Turn the nest hole eastwards -Don't put it too high (2 metres is enough) -Hide it in a tree if possible. -Remove the bird feeders around the nest. Don't invite other birds to the nest area. -Nest hole is important, our blue friends left the nest after we enlarged the nest hole. Nest hole should be 25mm even if its tight for them, they know where to nest.

[@caroldebeaussaert8971]

when are they going to start building? And it seems they are unhappy with the opening

[@LifeInTheNest]

We're keeping our fingers crossed, waiting to see when they'll start building. Maybe they won't do it at all, considering there are other alternative nests around. They've been visiting non-stop for 30 days now, but haven't taken any steps yet.

[@DJErrn]

The Female will decide, she will try to work out when is the best time to coincide with lots of caterpillers, It's my theory they keep an eye on trees budding and growing leaves as well as weather patterns. When the Female does a nesting shuffle there will be an explosion in nest building. (On Day 20 you can see the male do a nesting shuffle it is really unusual for a male to do a nesting shuffle, so these 2 are an interesting pair to say the least).