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Despite having 8 nest boxes in the garden for the last few years, all have remained empty. That is up till now as one now has blue tits in residence feeding very noisey chicks.

I can hear the chicks as its right above my potting bench. The parents are making great inroads in the greenfly population which were all over the climbing roses.

At last.

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We have 3 nest boxes (we did have one on the garage but that's currently undergoing a re-build and the box had to come down before the nesting season) and they are never all occupied at once. This year we have great tits in one. We have had coal tits on 2 occasions and last year the garage box had a family of blue tits. The path down the garden goes alongside the garage so on several occasions I narrowly missed having a bird in me ear as I walk down. They come whizzing in and out of those boxes amazingly fast!

Glad you've got residents at last. They are a great source of entertainment too. Who needs a telly?

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Nice one! Now try and get a photo of them going in and out the nest box! I tried with our pair and have multiple pictures - of just the box!

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Been watching Springwatch, and it's quite interesting seeing how and what birds nest where. I never knew ducks used bird boxes!

Good luck with yours pw.

I guess for the seriously dedicated, there's ways of watching up close: Nature Cameras

Still trying to work out what to do with my two acquired bird boxes...

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We have just been watching the tits zooming backwards and forwards to the feeding station (that sounds posh don't it!). We have two boxes in use, one either side of the garden path and we tiptoe up and down the garden like burglars! Both boxes full of noisey babies. I can just see one box when I am inside the shed and I have been hoping to take photos of when the babies fly but the camera seems to take the reflection from the grass. Other than that I hide behind the runner beans to try and catch a glimpse but still as I am the little beggars seem to know I am there and wont move until I have left. I just hope the neighbourhood cats don't get them.

We're enjoying SpringWatch too ... is Bill a 'short fat tit' ?

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well my husband seems to think so!! Goody, goody gum gum!!

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