Never Enough

We already had quite a few nest boxes...

You can my earlier posts here:  

bird pot, dormouse, dormouse boxes, 

great-tit, great-tit, leaving the nest, nestboxes,

common swift, bee boxes and nest box recycled material

but there's enough space left for a couple more...

We've added several common starling bird pots... the opening is 45 mm

the one with the smaller opening (35 mm) is a sparrow pot

new "terra potta" on the side, weathered wooden swift boxes on the front facade...

Kender Garden Day

We have 3 nest boxes occupied by great tits and 1 nestbox with blue tits.

We think we also have some bird nests in the hedges.

Mobli gets his treat....

and we get ours :)

Nest

The kenderman found a beautiful harvest mouse nest in our garden.

Enjoy your weekend!

Fully Booked

pictures by the kenderman.

Right now all of our nestboxes are occupied.

We have 3 nests of great tits and 1 blue tits nest.

The great tits are nesting in a swift's nestbox and a tree-creeper's nestbox.

Within a couple of weeks we'll be expanding with 4 nestboxes for swifts.
And finally we will build our own little owl nestbox. 

Nest Boxes

Finally the dormouse nest boxes are placed in our garden.

One is attached to the trunk of our pollard Black Alder at the end of our mixed hedgerow.

The other one is hanging in front of our wooded bank. Raspberry as well as Blackberry are nearby.

You can read about these boxes and the dormouse in my previous post here.

Empty Nest

One of our knotted white willows has an empty nest in it.

That's pretty quick considering this nest was build last spring and we planted this particular willow only 5 years ago by sticking a willow branch in the ground.
A young branch with a diameter of approxiamately 4 cm. So easy peasy :-)

This type of willow loves wet grounds and it grows incredible fast.

I'm curious if we will have a new nest in one of our knotted willows this year.

If you consider to plant some willows you might get some ideas here.

Nest

In early spring we pruned ours willows .

Now we have a nest of a Blackbird!

It's not that special but we can see, that in those 6 years we live here, the wildlife is appreciating our way of gardening.

 But the spot this Backbird chose is a quite exposed and windy place and when it starts raining she will get soaking wet.

Hopefully her eggs will turn into healthy blackbirds.

Leaving the Nest

On monday the youngsters (Great tits) flew out of the nest.

This is how the nest box was left behind.......quite greasy :-))

Great Tit

 In out barn we have a nest of Great Tits (aka Parus Major).

But these birds are extremely cautious!

They leave as soon as they see us or Sil close to the nest and they won't fly to the nest

box until we're gone.

This year they are using the nest box on the left.

In the autum, after they've gone, I clean the boxes with boiling water and some soda.

Hoping to see them again next spring!