Morning all,
we put up some nesting boxes this year and were delighted to be blessed with a pair of nesting blue tits. They were really busy ‘in and out’ feeding their young for days. We then had some torrential storms and the next morning found one of the parents dead on our driveway. I’m guessing they had to continue collecting food for the babies and got wet and heavy and died of exhaustion. So sad. I checked the nest box and of course the 3 babies had died.
is this a common occurrence?