Post by matt on Jan 24, 2019 10:01:27 GMT
Visits to two of the boxes already this morning, so activity is definitely increasing around here 
One difference this year is that my boxes are/were only triggering when a bird goes completely inside, since the camera angle is a little different to last year. I noticed last year that the majority of my visits before nesting were just a quick look through the hole, as if the bird was just checking that everything was still in order, but not actually going inside the box. So on that basis I may be getting more visits than I think. I managed to nobble the camera on one box yesterday so that it will now fire on an outside visit - and we got one of those nearly straight away this morning!
One difference this year is that my boxes are/were only triggering when a bird goes completely inside, since the camera angle is a little different to last year. I noticed last year that the majority of my visits before nesting were just a quick look through the hole, as if the bird was just checking that everything was still in order, but not actually going inside the box. So on that basis I may be getting more visits than I think. I managed to nobble the camera on one box yesterday so that it will now fire on an outside visit - and we got one of those nearly straight away this morning!