Blue-tits reservation of the house

The blue-tits are still making plans to have a nest in this birdhouse.
Even when there was snow, a few weeks ago, they were fiercely defending the house against intruders.
I am looking forward when the nestbuilding begins.

Birdhouse inspection

It was amazing to me that the blue-tits were defending the birdhouse
when other birds came too close.

Even it had been snowing it seemed not to matter to them.
It looks like, they have already claimed the birdhouse for the coming spring.
The great-tit also was looking for the house, to see if it was available,
when the blue-tits were busy some place else.

Flycatchers almost done

The flycatchers are almost done!
Every time a pass the nestbox I hear a great concert of the cheeping, chirping babies.
Its is a lovely sound to me.
So now and then one of the babies peeks out.
As you can see, they are about to fly out.

The parents are flying on and off with lots of creepy, crawly yummy things.
I always like to see the catch
and as you can see they have a lot of variety on the menu.
beetles, flies, butterflies, caterpillars...spiders!
click on the images for a greater sight!

new feeding house

A year ago I bought a new feeding home for the birds.
I did not use it then anymore because winter had gone at that time.

Now winter is coming again, I placed it on the feeding table.

A blackbird thought it was a nice place to sit and stay....
For almost an hour the blackbird sat in the house.
It was as if he said he wanted to stay there.

nestbox

I wonder who lives here?