Nest building progress

The nest is slowly taking shape. However, I am a little worried about all the hair. I hope that there will be no complications with the young birds later.Unfortunately, she seems to have found an inexhaustible source of these hairs somewhere in the area.At first I stole the hairs from her again, but when she […]

Sleeping great tit

The time has come. After I converted my two nest boxes over a year ago and equipped them with an additional side camera, I was finally able to make a great discovery for the first time this evening:The first sleeping great tit in the converted nest box and the first sleeping tit in over 2 […]

Wrong turn

The squirrel must have taken a wrong turn ?

In the middle of it, instead of just being there…

Recently, a camera has also been installed in one of my two hedgehog feeders. But the last few days the hedgehog kept stalling us.I had put a trail of dry cat food at the entrance to lure him into the feeder. But further than a body length the hedgehog never went into the house.But this […]

Nest box inspection

So slowly it is spring and the great tits begin to look around them for nesting opportunities.So far, however, it has remained with visits. No titmouse has started building a nest in either of the nest boxes yet.However, the male can already be seen that the hormones are slowly getting the little great tit’s body […]

First hedgehog of the year

The hedgehog season is open.After the last few days here in the Rhineland already brought spring-like temperatures, it also seems to have brought the first hedgehog out of his hibernation. Completely surprisingly he appeared for the first time in the night from the 25th to the 26th of February at the feeding place and filled […]