Attack!

Recently I have noticed that one specific bird is always singing in a nearby tree and checks the bird box many times every day. So this bird has apparently claimed the territory. It is the same bird that successfully defended the bird box in the previous post.

Today I captured this video of a fight in the box. A bird enters, then a few seconds later the bird that apparently owns this territory enters the box, fights the intruder and wins.

9 April 2012, 7:16am

See the attacked bird changing his posture just before the attack. 

9 April 2012, 7:16am

Btw, I have also noticed that recently a bird spends the nights in the birdbox again. Unfortunately this happens outside the view of the camera (probably perched on the wire leading to the camera, close to the ceiling) but I can hear it through the microphone. However, I think the bird that I saw flying into the box around sunset was not today's defender of the box.