Clumsy or inexperienced?
Today a small update from the great tit nest box.For a few days now, the titmouse has been spending the night in its nest in the nest box. However, so far I have not been able to discover any eggs in the nest.Until yesterday evening. When I looked at the pictures, I was a little […]
New Stream Online
The loyal visitors to my site know that I have a few garden dormice hanging around for the 3rd year now. The little Zorro mouse can be seen at night at the feeding place, occasionally tugging at the wool in the squirrel box, taking dry food from the bowl in the hedgehog feeder, or skilfully […]
Siesta during bad weather
With the current weather, there’s really only one thing to do…Wrap yourself up in a warm blanket at home and wait for spring and summer with a hot cup of tea.That’s exactly what one of the squirrels in the garden thought the other day.From morning to afternoon, it lay in its hutch for hours and […]
Eviction for personal use
Living space is scarce and in great demand. The mice also had to experience this a few days ago.After they had recently nested in one of the hedgehogs’ sleeping houses and made themselves comfortable, the actual tenant of this two-room flat suddenly turned up and took over the tenancy agreement without further ado. So the […]
Nest building in the final phase
Since yesterday morning, our great tit has increasingly been bringing animal hair and other plush material into the nest.This is a sign that she has brought enough moss and is now collecting the material for the hollow in which she will later lay the 6-8 eggs.Unfortunately, there are more long animal hairs again this year. […]
The next hibernator is back
Last night the next guest came back from hibernation.First he appeared in hedgehog feeder 1 and a little later he paid a short visit to the squirrel hutch.We are talking about little Zorro, our garden dormouse.All night long he sneaked up to the food bowl in Hedgehog Feeding House 1 and snatched a piece of […]
Nest building progress
The great tit lady was also busy expanding the nest today. A comparison between this morning and this late afternoon shows a clear progress. If things continue like this and the neighbouring thieving tit doesn’t steal the nesting material again, the first fluff should soon land in the nest. From then on, the great tit […]
More hedgehogs back from hibernation
Spring is just around the corner and the hedgehogs are starting to make their presence felt.After the first hedgehog came back from hibernation just under a week ago, two more hedgehogs appeared yesterday evening and during the night, having finished their hibernation.For a short time two of the hedgehogs sat in feeder 2 and ate. […]
Nest building has begun
Last weekend, the great tit had already shown the first signs of nest-building, which were then not continued. And this despite the fact that the weather was actually very nice.Ok. But this afternoon it suddenly continued. Within a short time, the nest box was filled with the finest moss from our lawn.Let’s hope that she […]
Fight for the nesting box
Spring is on its way and the bird world is looking for suitable nesting sites.The so-called cavity-nesting birds, which typically include tits, nuthatches and starlings, are also looking for good opportunities to raise their chicks. Many of them therefore gladly accept nesting boxes provided by people.One of my nest boxes, originally designed for titmice and […]
