Post by suep on Apr 7, 2020 14:28:56 GMT
Hi Paul, thank for your advice. My lucky box is not up Paul. I so wanted to see a nest for myself in a camera box and that box was impossible to put a camera in, so I just have two wooden boxes both with cameras, where I can see them and have been allowed to have wires through the wall 
The one a friend made for me as a wooden ‘copy’ of my lucky box has had so many visits and obviously a rooster for months, this is the one that building started in, but for three days now there has been no visits at all. In fact not a blue tit to be heard or seen anywhere. The other box I have up has to my knowledge only had one visit in the whole time it’s been up. It is clean as a whistle and obviously no-one likes it! To be fair it isn’t facing the best way but I have the trellis with ivy over it that was made last year that shades it really well. 
. By the way I do still have my log box up at the back of the bungalow but as far as I am aware there have been no visits to this one either (couldn’t bear to take this one down)
As for putting my lucky box up - well, it weighs a ton and needs to be drilled into a concrete post or wall ( place it has been previously has been covered now), and hubby is all out of goodwill towards my birdie obsession
. To be fair he did help in drilling through the walls for the wires to these boxes I do have up, but their fixings are not strong enough for the concrete lucky box. Great idea Paul but I am not capable of lifting it let alone getting it up on wall, and as Corona restrictions are in place my son cannot come to my rescue this time 
. Hubby is not a meanie, he just likes things prim and proper, and after 50 years of marriage I don’t think I could bag or train a new man now 
. Am trying to stay positive, but I know full well time is fast running out for this year.
Thank you for thinking about it Paul.
Sue
The one a friend made for me as a wooden ‘copy’ of my lucky box has had so many visits and obviously a rooster for months, this is the one that building started in, but for three days now there has been no visits at all. In fact not a blue tit to be heard or seen anywhere. The other box I have up has to my knowledge only had one visit in the whole time it’s been up. It is clean as a whistle and obviously no-one likes it! To be fair it isn’t facing the best way but I have the trellis with ivy over it that was made last year that shades it really well. 
. By the way I do still have my log box up at the back of the bungalow but as far as I am aware there have been no visits to this one either (couldn’t bear to take this one down)As for putting my lucky box up - well, it weighs a ton and needs to be drilled into a concrete post or wall ( place it has been previously has been covered now), and hubby is all out of goodwill towards my birdie obsession
. To be fair he did help in drilling through the walls for the wires to these boxes I do have up, but their fixings are not strong enough for the concrete lucky box. Great idea Paul but I am not capable of lifting it let alone getting it up on wall, and as Corona restrictions are in place my son cannot come to my rescue this time 
. Hubby is not a meanie, he just likes things prim and proper, and after 50 years of marriage I don’t think I could bag or train a new man now 
. Am trying to stay positive, but I know full well time is fast running out for this year. Thank you for thinking about it Paul.
Sue