Luvachicken Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I've been lucky enough to get a pair of Great Tits nesting in the box in our front garden (and I can spy on them with the camera inside) but so far nothing else has nested. I just wondered who has what nesting in their gardens this year, as I asked last year and was very interested to see the replies. On a different note, I don't have any frogspawn in my pond yet and I'm sure we have by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Last year I had bluetits in one box and great-tits in the other, I was hoping for a repeat as I've had some bird activity in the garden. One nest box is certainly occupied, but not by birds - I saw a queen bumblebee emerging yesterday! I'm very happy to have bees nesting instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I'll be interested to hear what you all come up with We don't have any boxes here but a whole colony of house sparrows nest under the roof tiles of the kitchen and the outhouse. We didn't get here till the end of April last year and I noticed activity right from then for a couple of months. Nothing so far this year, but it may just be too early Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancing cloud Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 We have lost of little birds nesting in big conifers - sparrows, bluetits, great tits, chaffinches - as well as dunnocks, blackbirds, magpies and different sizes of crows all carrying off twigs and leaves. On Saturday we had a magnificent male bullfinch singing away in the cherry tree - won't take him long to find a girlfriend, he was gorgeous! Our current favourites are mr and mrs greenfinch, who come and help themselves to beaks-full of dog hair off the patio (we put it out for them). They've taken so much, Dad reckons they must have fitted carpet in their nest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clucker1 Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 The funniest ones are the wood pigeons who year on year choose ridiculous size twigs/branches, fly round our garden just about without losing balance just then put it into a heap of a nest which is the most unsuitable place. Last year near our back door perched on the top of the drain pipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 We have an assortment of birds living in our roof... it's thatched, and they just crawl in between the top layer and the older roof. Thy make a right mess, but I don't mind them... thy can be quite entertaining... mostly when they fly out just as you pass them and squawk at you like 'you're' doing something wrong and not them. I don't know what breeds they are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newcountrygirl Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 We have currently got Mallards sitting on a nest of over 10 eggs in the reeds alongside our lake. Also Moorhens. In the garden area we have Great Tits, Blue Tits, Dunnocks, Collared Doves, Pheasant, Greenfinches, Chaffinches, and the House Martins have just started to come in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Newcountrygirl, if you have house martins already then it won't be long before the swallows arrive I just love the sound of them calling through the sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancing cloud Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Little wren was picking up fur carpets yesterday and last night I noticed the bats are back. Just the small bats at the moment, bigger ones still to come, but spring really must be on its way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted April 10, 2014 Author Share Posted April 10, 2014 I had a surprise when I looked in the camera box today 5 little eggs in the nest. I only looked yesterday and didn't see any eggs - they must have been buried in the fluff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
