3-17-12 The bird saga continues

Last week I told you about the hard to satisfy female blue bird and the enterprising chickadees. Well, this week the story took a new turn with two brown headed nuthatches taking over the nesting box.

The box being too deep for their needs, they have worked very diligently at filling the bottom with large amounts of dry matters, flying in and out every few seconds.

It all worked very nicely until Thursday when a chickadee showed up, a day late and a dollar short, to claim the same shelter. The way I found out was the unusual raucus emanating from the nesting area and, for the next two days, one of the nuthatches had to stand guard while the other gathered building material.

It put a serious cramp into their progress until two days later, when the would be squatter finally gave in and started researching other nesting possibilities around the garden.

You'll be happy to know that the nuthatches completed construction within schedule and under cost. Something for us to learn!

 Those guys being so fast, I have not been able to catch a good picture so I borrowed from the net again.