Box 1 is receiving several visits to its nest hole each day, but
usually a bird only actually goes inside on two or three occasions.
The
pattern is much the same each time. The bird enters, looks the box up
and down, and then hops onto the exit hole.
This
bird spent about 13 seconds inspecting the view from the box. We hope
it approves of what it sees!
It
has another final look up at the camera at the top of the box before departing.
Monday 7th February
I decided that we could wait for the tree to come down no longer and have put up Box 2!
It is not connected to our computers yet so we cannot see inside it, but I have managed to re-orient the external camera so that you can just see the face of the box. Any bird looking in or coming and going will now be visible!
The
box is now attached to the oak tree I have previously mentioned, and faces roughly
north east. If I swing it a bit more towards the external camera it
will face nearer to the east and get the full early morning sunshine.
We had this problem in 2003 and it meant that on a sunny day, the inside
pictures were badly affected until late morning. Therefore, when I
remounted it in early 2004 I made sure that it was facing more to the north,
roughly in the direction it now faces.
Now I will have to get the internal camera linked up so that I can see whether I have this problem in its new site.
The image alongside was taken about twenty past five and the light had dropped away considerably. Tomorrow will show it in a proper light!