Oh, nooooo!
!!!My Balcony Bird World
My Balcony Bird World
But what if a wasp queen settles in one??? 
Oh, nooooo!
!!!
Oh, nooooo!
!!!
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My Balcony Bird World
A very smart Great Tit:
A day or two ago I observed a young female Great Tit hunting for spiders in the top corner of the window by the roll of of our balcony marquies.
Anyway our nylon window screen is held on there by Velcro-tape along the edges of the window frame; and she hung there by her feet on the screen in the corner (weighing only 20 gram) and unbuttoned the screen from the Velcro, ate the spider and then lovingly pecked the screen back into the corner snug to the Velcro!
On another occassion I had been experimenting with the insides of hot Turkish 'Sivri' peppers as a rodent deterant in my old feeder tray. And this same bird wanted to do some housekeeping as only the stem and 'cap' was left dried up in the feeder. She grabbed it in her beak, hopped out of the tray onto a bamboo rod by my raspberry bushes (on the balcony), looked around a bit (maybe for the bin) and then dropped it politely into one of the 45 l. containers where my raspberry bushes are planted!
A day or two ago I observed a young female Great Tit hunting for spiders in the top corner of the window by the roll of of our balcony marquies.
Anyway our nylon window screen is held on there by Velcro-tape along the edges of the window frame; and she hung there by her feet on the screen in the corner (weighing only 20 gram) and unbuttoned the screen from the Velcro, ate the spider and then lovingly pecked the screen back into the corner snug to the Velcro!
On another occassion I had been experimenting with the insides of hot Turkish 'Sivri' peppers as a rodent deterant in my old feeder tray. And this same bird wanted to do some housekeeping as only the stem and 'cap' was left dried up in the feeder. She grabbed it in her beak, hopped out of the tray onto a bamboo rod by my raspberry bushes (on the balcony), looked around a bit (maybe for the bin) and then dropped it politely into one of the 45 l. containers where my raspberry bushes are planted!
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My Balcony Bird World
Hi!
Does anybody have an answer to the question I asked on my last post on page three?
Thanks!
Does anybody have an answer to the question I asked on my last post on page three?
Thanks!
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My Balcony Bird World
I'm still uncertain if these three possible locations for bird houses would work or not. I'm mainly concerned about giving Great Tits or Blue Tits cozy winter quaters.
Possible locations A & B on the balcony's west wall:
Possible location on the balcony's east wall:
What are you thoughts? Please reply!
Possible locations A & B on the balcony's west wall:
Possible location on the balcony's east wall:
What are you thoughts? Please reply!
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Re: The Garden of Charles B
Sorry not a clue guess is will be trial and error...Good luck
Pardon the Scottish accent
Re: The Garden of Charles B
Looks to me Charles that the area you are showing is well used by yourself, which may put the birds off from using any nest boxes you choose to put up. Somewhere more quiet may be your best bet. Other than that like the above said it will be trial and error.
My Balcony Bird World
Thanks Linda!
Thanks William!
I guess I can try it. Otherwise I may have to use them for:
1.) Interior wall deco
2.) piggy bank for coins
3.) Yarn-ball dispenser for knitting
4.) Speaker boxes for high frequency 'tweeters'
Both houses were sitting on the dining room table with their Great Tit pictures on the front, so told my three year old grand daughter:
"That bird is in there with his wife and kids and they're all sleeping! Shhhhh!"
She believed me and was very quiet! Haha!
Thanks William!
I guess I can try it. Otherwise I may have to use them for:
1.) Interior wall deco
2.) piggy bank for coins
3.) Yarn-ball dispenser for knitting
4.) Speaker boxes for high frequency 'tweeters'
Both houses were sitting on the dining room table with their Great Tit pictures on the front, so told my three year old grand daughter:
"That bird is in there with his wife and kids and they're all sleeping! Shhhhh!"
She believed me and was very quiet! Haha!
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Re: The Garden of Charles B
I think both species like an open flight path to their nests, so they can check for predators before entering and leaving. May be different for roosting purposes rather than nesting purposes. Wherever you site them, patience will be key to seeing if they get used, and I'm talking weeks rather than days. Probably. Or it could all be nonsense 
Good luck whichever siting you experiment with 
Good luck whichever siting you experiment with My Balcony Bird World
Thanks so much for your input PimerneBloke!PimperneBloke wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 7:51 am Wherever you site them, patience will be key to seeing if they get used, and I'm talking weeks rather than days. Probably. Or it could all be nonsense
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My Balcony Bird World
Hi!
Being that the WX here is beautiful, no rain with 25° to 28° Celcius forcasted, the Tits should visit my balcony now and then all day long in little flocks. They will naturally also be very playfull and curious on such a day.
So I'm doing a test back in the NW corner below the pergola's open-air bamboo roof. Above it would be indeed better but there's a stout old masonary-nail driven into the brick there. It's right next to the little, white wooden box I built for my WX station sensor.
This area is also very popular with the Great Tits as I sat an empty, rectangle, 5 litre planter on it's side up against the wall up there to the left which they like a lot. They sit in there quite offen cracking their sunflower seeds or just resting.
The Great Tits also like the clear plastic meat containers ontop of the pergola which serve to raise my FM ring antenna above ground potential for a better signal. And one Tit slept in there for two nights in a row. That's what urged me on to buy bird houses.
Of course I bought these two bird houses with 'heart but not brain' like I also do when purchasing with model railway stuff or wooden model ship kits.
Being that the WX here is beautiful, no rain with 25° to 28° Celcius forcasted, the Tits should visit my balcony now and then all day long in little flocks. They will naturally also be very playfull and curious on such a day.
So I'm doing a test back in the NW corner below the pergola's open-air bamboo roof. Above it would be indeed better but there's a stout old masonary-nail driven into the brick there. It's right next to the little, white wooden box I built for my WX station sensor.
This area is also very popular with the Great Tits as I sat an empty, rectangle, 5 litre planter on it's side up against the wall up there to the left which they like a lot. They sit in there quite offen cracking their sunflower seeds or just resting.
The Great Tits also like the clear plastic meat containers ontop of the pergola which serve to raise my FM ring antenna above ground potential for a better signal. And one Tit slept in there for two nights in a row. That's what urged me on to buy bird houses.
Of course I bought these two bird houses with 'heart but not brain' like I also do when purchasing with model railway stuff or wooden model ship kits.
Last edited by Charles B on Sun Sep 28, 2025 6:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.