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Hi everyone
Ive had a male sparrow roosting in my nestbox all winter. The last week or so I have noticed that the sparrow has a female mate, who has also been going into the nestbox. This morning I took a look to see if theres any activity going on, and both the male and female were in the box together, seemed to be just staring at each other LOL, theres also bits of nesting material that they have started collecting in there. I was so excited.
I have been keeping my tv on so that I can hear when they enter the box, and they are both coming and going, but not sure if its my lack of experience, or wether this is normal behaviour......but the male comes into the nestbox, and is very vocal, and he wont shut up until the female comes......however when the female comes into the box, the male seems agitated and then the female starts pecking him like mad......poor sparrow.....then he flies off......but the female just sits there and tweets now and then, as if shes waiting for him to come back. Is this the usual behaviour of a pair of sparrows?? I am really hoping so, because Im really hoping to see baby birds this year.
Here are some pics I took earlier, not brill quality.
The female is still in the box now as I write!!
bekky
Hi Bekky
Oh how exciting to have birds nesting in your nestcam box. It will be great to watch the whole drama unfold from eggs to fledging.
I hope you will keep us up to date. :-)
Best wishes Chris
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Woodpecker said: Hi Bekky Oh how exciting to have birds nesting in your nestcam box. It will be great to watch the whole drama unfold from eggs to fledging. I hope you will keep us up to date. :-)
I will keep you up to date. Actually maybe I will start a diary thread:)
Please Do Bekky
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Hi Bekky,
How exciting! I wish I could say the same about one of my camera boxes - completely empty!!
My other one is having some activity as I see the birds in and out during the day - but the camera has gone dead and needs replacing. Typical it's that box the birds chose!!!
Looking forward to your diary.
Cheers, Linda.
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Aww sparrow thats so annoying, I bet your gutted, if it happened a month ago then maybe you would have had time to change the camera? Nevermind at least if they nest you will still get to see the young ones :)
Bekky said: Aww sparrow thats so annoying, I bet your gutted, if it happened a month ago then maybe you would have had time to change the camera? Nevermind at least if they nest you will still get to see the young ones :)
I have a replacement camera on order, and am hoping we can find a moment when the birds are away to change them over. It's only a minute's job, so fingers crossed we can do it without any disturbance.
good luck, and I shall keep my fingers crossed for you!! They had the camera nestboxes in aldi's a few weeks back for £39.99. Its the same 1 as I use, very good value for money!!
Thanks Bekky.
My empty box is an Aldi one, too!!!!! I bought it last year when they had the same offer on. Best thing I ever bought bird-wise.