In January 2015 my wife bought a Bird Box from Aldi and I was extremely skeptical that any right minded bird would want to nest in such a garish (sorry  - decorative) birdbox, so close to the house and with a cat prowling around. How wrong I was! The following month we watched two blue tits tirelessly make a nest and then in June the youngsters flew the nest always wondering what had gone on inside all this time?  

Cue retirement project.  Here is the parts list for the project  - Mk 2 version operational Feb 2016 that includes a "On During Day" light sensor to save battery power at night. Mk 3 version operational Feb 2017 that has a new birdbox and 15 W solar panel.

Below is the latest image (recorded every 5 mins and web page refreshed every 2 1/2 mins) - if it's a mass of lines it means either:

• It's between sunset and sunrise or
• the microwave is on! or
• the battery has fallen below 11.6 volts and you will have to wait until either the sun or I re-charge it!

Latest Image

  

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Click here for our 2017 bird box cam gallery

or here for the 2016 gallery