Changed camera position

All works fine :)

Latest birdbox visit statistics

Here are the latest visit statistics of the bird box. A bird spent the night in the box every night (except New Year's Eve) until January 7th. Since then there have still been frequent visits during the daytime but no roosting at night.

Very recently there have also been fewer visits to the box during the day. I think this is related to the fact that there is less feeding going on around the box. The birds used to feed in the same birch tree where the box is located. Now this has stopped.

The current quiet period gave me the opportunity to open the box and aim the camera again to the bottom of the box where hopefully a bird will make a nest in the spring. I wanted to do this well before the spring so that I don't have to mess with the box when the action (hopefully) starts!

Is this a fight over territory?

Today I captured this footage. A bird is inside the box and another one enters. They appear to be fighting for a few seconds after which the loser flies out of the box and the winner stays. It's hard to tell who is the winner, the "original" bird or the "intruder"...

Btw: no birds have roosted in the box for the last three nights. Maybe they lost interest in roosting there because of the extremely mild weather. However, there are still frequent visits of different birds during the day.

Bird chooses the bird box again!

After having scared the bird out of the box with to much noise yesterday, I'm happy to report that he has chosen to spend the night here again!