| Jan 3rd |
The bird box is on the tree and wired up, all we need now are visitors.
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| Jan 6th |
The first visitor arrived and spent a minute
inspecting the property. Will (s)he make an offer or does the other half
have to have a look first. No room for a loft conversion as the camera is up there.
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| Jan 9th |
3 days later a return visit to examine the hole in the floor.
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| Jan 11th |
2 days later another visit.
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| Jan 12th |
1 day later a visit to try performing some contortions.
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| Jan 13th-20th |
We seemed to be getting a lot of uninteresting pictures of an empty box. I
spent a bit of time
just watching it and noticed that there was a lot of interest from the birds
at the entrance, mostly from Mr. Blue trying to impress Mrs. Blue with his
pecking skills. This was causing the light in the box to
change so much that the motion detection software thought there was
something in the box to take a picture of.
Adjusted the detection sensitivity and for a few days got no pictures at all
so changed the sensitivity again with much waggling of a finger through
the entrance hole and instructions over the telephone intercom.
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| Jan 21st |
This morning I watched as Mr. Blue agitated at the entrance and then entered
the box, closely followed by the missus. You can just see Mrs. Blue's
beak at the right of the picture.
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| Feb 18th |
The last few weeks the pictures have been unremarkable. There have been plenty
generated by activity at the entrance. However, today yielded a few that
looked slightly different to our inexperienced eyes:- the wings were
spread
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| Feb 22nd |
The visits are definitely becoming more frequent, although not always by the
same bird! Thanks Guy!
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| Feb 26th |
The box was very busy today with 5 separate visits inside and many more on the
outside. We were thrilled to bits to see both Mr. and Mrs. Blue.
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End of diary. |
