Nesting material for birds - in video

Recently I posted the question - 'Who's been taking nesting material'... so we setup a trail camera and did a spot of long-lens lurking to document which birds were taking sheep wool added to the eaves above our 'Welly boot' bird nesting site.

Blue tit on wool

While not a great surprise, turns out it was Blue tits and Great tits.  We caught these two on our Trail Camera at the Welly boot nest:

Blue Tit on welly boot nest

Great Tit on welly boot nest

..and at the main wool store:

Blue tit on Hairy Harry

Providing nesting material for birds

Everyone likes to be tucked up snug at night - even garden birds...  After discovering that our local birds were taking a of sheep's wool nesting material stuffed into the eaves above our 'Welly boot nest site', we wondered whether we could put it out next to our bird feeders.

The next question was 'Would it matter if it got wet'.. so we decided to setup an experiment.  One has the sheep wool under a plant pot, the other is open to the air.

These two  have been named 'Hairy Harry' and 'Woolly Willy'.  All very scientific-like.

bokeh-tastic

One of our nest boxes is seeing daily activity with blue tits doing some preliminary nest-building, using a mixture of moss and ?bark slivers.  None of the wool is going here, so someone else is obviously taking it...

Update: Find out who --> Videos in this blog post