Bluetit Diary    Mar 2016 (7)

More nesting material being brought into Box2.

This female is the one with what looks like the remains of a broken feather sticking out of her left hand wing.  We are going to call her Spikey!  Perhaps her partner should be Hugh?

(In case anyone has missed it, Spike Hughes was a famous jazz bassist of the early 1930s.  In the 1950s I also had an excellent and inspiring welsh maths teacher whose surname was Hughes who we obviously nicknamed Spike!)

Instead of just dropping the nesting material, or even hurling it to the floor as is commonly practised, Spikey carefully placed it there.

Finally, she gave a nesting wriggle before leaving the nest box.