I have asked this in the open forum but want to get an expert's opinion:
We have a blue tit building its nest at the moment and we observed some mysterious behaviour, which I don't know if it is courtship or defence. I hope someone may shed some light on this. Yesterday evening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZnXn-BbaIo), the nesting blue tit entered the box. A while later another one came with its wings lowered and seemed to be "begging" outside the box. Inside the box (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVmYTpa5OI), the nesting one "bit into the air" even if it didn't see the other one later. It didn't look aggressive as it didn't spread its tail or made any noise. I am not sure if the one side was the male as it looks different from the male that used to come. A while later (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMJz3tjQgY8), the blue tit outside was still lowering its wings and seemed to be begging outside the nest box. You can see the nesting one's behaviour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAgXx-VgWKw). This evening, we saw the nesting blue tit "attacking" the one outside (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuhbhWbahp0). Is this really an attack?
This is a duplicate of Mysterious blue tit behaviourblueblut tit: https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/wildlife-questions/279925/mysterious-blue-tit-behaviourblueblut-tit/1387038#1387038
My reply there is:
"I don't know much about blue tit behaviour, so I: can't offer any suggestions. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will be able to give an answer."
Mike
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