Building Bird Nest Boxes

The past few evenings have been occupied building some new nest boxes for the garden. Last year we had a pair of Great Tits successfully rear seven babies in one of our nest boxes. That nest box is looking a bit worse for wear now, so I am planning to replace it with a brand new one made from 12mm plywood and fitted with a miniature colour video camera, so we can monitor progress on the TV in the house.

I have also build a Sparrow Terrace nest box in the hope that the house sparrows will find it to their liking. I got the plans for both nest boxes from the Beautiful Britain website.