Bluetits - house hunting?

Hi Elibee

when you write a post above the box you write in you will see a green pic of a film, click on that and it will let you put in your photo.

Hi Elibee,

It certainly looks like they are house hunting. Lovely to see.

To post a photo direct to the forum, just click on the green icon in the grey strip above the message box.

Edit - sorry Janet, our posts crossed.

Hi EliBee,  I have looked at your  gallery and left comment there.

Susan H said:

Edit - sorry Janet, our posts crossed.

thats ok,  no worries.  we both had same idea  :-)

try putting the photo on again Elibee.

Here it is - thanks for all the help!

Hi Elibee, what a brilliant photo. Baby bootee knitting will be on the agenda before long - fingers crossed. In another thread you posted a link to your webcams and I am really enjoying looking at those - although I managed to miss your house inspectors! Can I enquire please, where did you get your fat feeder?

Janet D said:

Hi Elibee,

as I said lovely photo, please keep us up to date as to nesting, and family hopefully

Hi Janet - I'm not sure if I'll have much time to post here when/if  things get busy - there are  7 cameras monitoring three boxes, and each one can catch up to four pics per second! 

However, the best of these will appear in our Diary - http://www.biggonline.co.uk

Squirrel B said:

Hi Elibee, what a brilliant photo. Baby bootee knitting will be on the agenda before long - fingers crossed. In another thread you posted a link to your webcams and I am really enjoying looking at those - although I managed to miss your house inspectors! Can I enquire please, where did you get your fat feeder?

Thanks, Squirrel.  I won't be doing any knitting, but I'll be reminding my neighbour that I like to have the fur when she brushes her cat.  I add this to the feathers from an old pillow, together with bought "bedding material" and it all goes into a little terracotta holder to hang on the pergola.  

The fat feeder is from CJ WildBird Foods - they call it a Traditional Peanut Cake Guardian (but my birds only get home made fat blocks)!!

Many thanks for that information Elibee. I do hope your families begin to move in soon. Strange about the cat fur, in a way. You would think they wouldn't like that with it coming from one of their arch enemies. I provide nesting wool which the blue tits are very enthusiatic about. I originally had mine in a terracotta holder but last spring one blue tit got into a right pickle and ended up flying off with a clump the size of a cotton wool ball (which he could hardly cope with) so after that I put my wool into a peanut holder and "teased" bits through with a crochet hook.