February page2 2008

February (Page 2) 2008

Omega as I mentioned before is a very messy boy. This was the state of bird box 2 on the 17 Feb.

So the following day, time for a good clean out, scrubbed washed and filled with wood shavings.

That night on Omega's return, he jumps in not having seen that things have changed

Startled he jumps back out, he then spends the next half hour going in and out

Watch the video of Omega realising what has happened

The morning of the 19 Feb. started as usual with Aella banging away at her favourite corner of bird box 1

Something very strange then happens, she turns up at box 2 and with Omega trying to get her to enter

Aella eventually enters box 2 and does not like what she finds.

She then spends the next two hours taking the majority of the wood shavings out

Even Omega is encouraged into helping, very strange

This is the box by 10 am. that morning, shavings gone

The two of them are seemingly closer than before

Now the next strange thing is Aella behaviour, she starts doing nest wiggles

Watch this clip and you will see Aella doing nest wiggles and later clearing out the box of Omegas poops

Then just a few hours later she does the same wiggles back in box 1, is she planning to have two nests this season

This behaviour could be that she thinks another bird has created that mess in box 2 and she is not for sharing.

The really startling thing is that since this has happened every morning she enters box 2 and clears out Omegas mess

Hear you can clearly see her with one of his poops in her beak, dedication or what.

Just to prove the point here she is back in box 1 doing the same thing.

Back at box 1 and more pre nesting behaviour, apart from clearing box 2 out each morning she is now spending most of her time back in box 1