Post by WildlifePaul on Apr 8, 2019 9:57:40 GMT
Welcome Bob,
You aren't wrong but friendly people on here, Nicest bunch of people I have spoke to in my life.
We are all like a little family on here in Spring so welcome!
As pointed out this is pretty normal behaviour for the blue tits, Just leave the box alone and things will work themselves out.
Diane, I wish I bloody was an expert on telling them apart!
Male and Female are near impossible to sex Bob, What I do is look for marks on the females face, The female is the one who does all the nest building.
Males visits to the box are very brief during building stages, Look for little marks on her face or look at her black eye bars its the black strip that goes across each eye.
Sometimes I have noticed my males have thin ones and the female as thicker ones. Not always the case of course but looking for little differences between them is the way to go forward with sexing them.
I am lucky at moment that my female is really tatty looking in the face can pick her from a line up.
You aren't wrong but friendly people on here, Nicest bunch of people I have spoke to in my life.
We are all like a little family on here in Spring so welcome!
As pointed out this is pretty normal behaviour for the blue tits, Just leave the box alone and things will work themselves out.
Diane, I wish I bloody was an expert on telling them apart!
Male and Female are near impossible to sex Bob, What I do is look for marks on the females face, The female is the one who does all the nest building.
Males visits to the box are very brief during building stages, Look for little marks on her face or look at her black eye bars its the black strip that goes across each eye.
Sometimes I have noticed my males have thin ones and the female as thicker ones. Not always the case of course but looking for little differences between them is the way to go forward with sexing them.
I am lucky at moment that my female is really tatty looking in the face can pick her from a line up.