The weather was, for a change, dry and quiet warm. Visits to box 1 were high with around 24 visits being made during the day. Today I left the PC monitoring the boxes instead of the DVD recorder.
When I went through all the images I saw two images from Box 1 that looked like nest wiggles! With that I turned on the DVD recorder in the hope I could verify this, and I did not have to wait long.
Three nesting wiggles were observed and recorded in box 1 after only five minutes of me turning on the DVD recorder!
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Nest Wiggle 1 |
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Nest Wiggle 2 |
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Nest Wiggle 3 |
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The male visited the entrance hole whilst this was going on but was warned off from entering. After performing around six wiggles the female spent a few minutes cleaning it's wings.
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Female cleaning after performing nest wiggles |
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So with nesting wiggles happening it looks like Box 1 will have a nest this year, providing nothing else goes wrong!
Box 3 saw another single visit today but again no entries were made inside.
Our next diary update will be on 10th February. |