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February (Page 2) 2009
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| This last few weeks has been fraught with
problems. The new caballing we had installed seemed not to
work properly giving ghosting images. The new box 1 cameras worked
well, but the pictures received in the house, were very poor |
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| After weeks of investigating we discovered
a nail had caught a few of the cables, so although not all were
damaged we had to run a few extras. On top of cable problems, the
post that supports the feeder nearly fell over in the very strong
winds we have had here, the post was rotten and had to be replaced |
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Despite all this work going on, in the garden,
it seems to have had little effect on the Bluies. Although they show
little interest in setting up a nest just yet |
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| New to the garden, this Great Tit has a
look in the new box, contrast is a bit of in this picture, fixed
later |
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| The side camera is giving good views and
should be great to watch from, if and when a nest is constructed |
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| This Blue Tit does a nest wiggle, one of
just a few this year, so far |
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| This Great Tit seen from the side |
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| Back in box 2, lots of interest from Great
Tits |
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| This female is checking out the reflection
in the glass, because this box gets little direct sunlight, the
glass wall works well, and the birds don't attack their dim
reflections |
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| This is a shot of the male in the box,
trying he's best to entice the Female to enter |
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| She enters and he leaves stage left very
quickly |
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| Later that night, a great Tit comes to
roost. However it seems to take a great deal of time trying to get
in |
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| Settling down for the night, we notice that
this bird seems to have a damaged left wing, still usable, but as it
tries to get its legs in, the left wing, shoulder joint sticks out,
making it very hard to get through the hole |
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| This bird, I think, is the one that had the
scrap with the Bluies in box 1, if you check back at the pictures
from then, 13.01.2009 you will see that the Blue Tit is
hanging on to this birds left wing. You can see in this picture when
it returned to box 1 a few days later that its left wing is low |
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| The following night it could not get in the
box and went over to some thick bushes to find some cover, from the
terrible storm we were having, later that evening in the pouring
rain we took the box down, and greatly enlarged the hole, viewable
in this picture |
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| This is the same bird on the feeder, and you
can clearly see that it holds its left wing very low, but now
happily, roost every night, in box 2. Whether it makes a nest, we
will have to wait and see, but we could not leave it to the mercy of
the bad weather we were having at the time |
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