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Hi there
As mentioned throughout various thread I have 2 Bird Boxes- one is fine to use, and the other needs a bit of TLC, some areas replaced etc .... (yes, still to be done)
Anyway, this one we got is one we bought form the RSPB about 4 years ago. It is now pinned to the 3rd Trellis we have above the garden seat) at the back of our garden so we can see all the action form our patio window through our binoculars or scope.
I hope we are not too late for our feathered friends, and they find it a comfortable 5 star B&B, as it should be. There is plenty of cover to fly into from danger, and protection from the winds, sun and the rain - due to close contact with various bushes and slightly larger evergreen trees
We will now keep and toes crossed for new residents.
Regards
Kathy and Dave
I really like the 'natural look' of your nestbox :) Let's hope birds like it too
'Dip a dee dah, dip a dee ay, we're not seeing any birds to-day...'
Thankyou Tern for your good wishes for my future 2011 house guests {big smile}
Does anyone else have a Nest box like this one as we thought it was 'old hat' and had now been replaced by better models... maybe?
Darcy N said: I really like the 'natural look' of your nestbox :) Let's hope birds like it too
I have found photos of my other battered bird box (made by my old boss all those years ago). This is it hanging form my shed form one of my original gardens
It is needing TLC and its support post fixed now - but still functioning as a bird box should. I feel it is worthy to keep for many more years to come yet.
My current bird box looking a little younger than it was in my former garden along with my home made one in the photos above
Nicki C said: Thankyou Tern for your good wishes for my future 2011 house guests {big smile} Does anyone else have a Nest box like this one as we thought it was 'old hat' and had now been replaced by better models... maybe? Regards Kathy and Dave I really like the 'natural look' of your nestbox :) Let's hope birds like it too
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I've around 10 nestboxes dotted around my garden... but all of them need TLC, or more like replacing! They were all fitted when we moved in, and last winter when we cleaned one of them (the only one that actually opened!) I found that it was pretty much taken over by worm-y stuff. They had actually gone into the rotted parts and was digging its way through it! Ewww.
The other boxes are all unopenable(unless I destroy it) and there's one which vaguely looks like a bat box but the true identity of that nestbox is unknown! :)
Hi Tern
Wow you have a good number of Nest boxes dotted around your garden. Ten of them is a good number to hold onto. Are they all occupied every year or are they redundant now?
With our bird boxes, we try to clean old stuff out from last years nesting material for the sakes of being bug ridden more than anything - just in-case {feel like a scratch now LOL}, There is some amazing stuff that you find at the end of a year in a bird box!
We have moved about 3 times since 2007, so we uproot over and over again. We only hope that our bird boxes take the battering that they do in each move - and it is not always possible.
We live in hope
Darcy N said: I've around 10 nestboxes dotted around my garden... but all of them need TLC, or more like replacing! They were all fitted when we moved in, and last winter when we cleaned one of them (the only one that actually opened!) I found that it was pretty much taken over by worm-y stuff. They had actually gone into the rotted parts and was digging its way through it! Ewww. The other boxes are all unopenable(unless I destroy it) and there's one which vaguely looks like a bat box but the true identity of that nestbox is unknown! :)
I like your birdhouse Kathy its very homely and unusual. Tern I think your wormy stuff could be snails hibernating in the nest boxes we have the same .
Sue
Unknown said: I like your birdhouse Kathy its very homely and unusual. Sue
I like your birdhouse Kathy its very homely and unusual.
me too - its a very pretty birdbox. Are your others still weatherproof?
you can never have too many birdboxes in my opinion
Izzy
Hi Sue
Thank you for your kind comments about my birdboxes
Tern: oh yuk but at least Sue have given you an idea what you are having to deal with in your bird boxes.
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I have to say I am wary what I find in any bird box at the end of the year
Maybe I feel the tendrals of what livestock could exist in a bird box and would it like me too LOL