Last year I made a little House sparrow terrace after having lots of sparrow activity in the garden. We got this up early summer, obviously this was much to late for them to use that year but this year we have had some interest. Alas not from House sparrows but from a pair of Great tits. The design of a sparrow terrace is basically three nest boxes side by side (House sparrows live in communities and like to nest near each other) and I don't think the Great tits have made up their minds which box to use. The other evening I watched them hop out of the central box only to go to the end box and then the other end. Perhaps they like the idea of taking over the whole thing? Guess time will tell.
Not being satisfied with just one nest box in the garden we've now got another 3 - two open fronted, Wren or Robin boxes and a normal box with a sparrow (32mm - only drill bit I had) sized hole. Today we finally got around to getting the holed and open fronted boxes up. I thought they would weather in this year and perhaps get used in a year or two. Amazingly within 10mins we had viewings from a pair of Blue tits and Great tits (probably the same ones scoping out Sparrow terrace).
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| "Hello Im here for a viewing....." |
I look forward to seeing which species use the boxes around the garden. Even if its just a couple of Blue and Great tits (I wasn't really expecting Black redstart or Pied flycatcher), it would feel really satisfying knowing I had built something the birds had used to nest in.
