‘Nature’s soap opera’: how a wildlife artist’s nestboxes became a YouTube hit
‘Nature’s soap opera’: how a wildlife artist’s nestboxes became a YouTube hit
The births, fledgling flights and even first dates on Robert Fuller’s site are about to hit a million global subscribers
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May 30, 2026 at 7:35 AM
‘Nature’s soap opera’: how a wildlife artist’s nestboxes became a YouTube hit
Did you know Barn Owl nestboxes can go on trees? 🦉🌳
No barn or outbuilding? A suitable tree might be perfect!
Tree nestboxes are different to indoor ones. Learn all about them here, including how to build your own 🛠
www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-nes...
No barn or outbuilding? A suitable tree might be perfect!
Tree nestboxes are different to indoor ones. Learn all about them here, including how to build your own 🛠
www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-nes...
August 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Did you know Barn Owl nestboxes can go on trees? 🦉🌳
No barn or outbuilding? A suitable tree might be perfect!
Tree nestboxes are different to indoor ones. Learn all about them here, including how to build your own 🛠
www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-nes...
No barn or outbuilding? A suitable tree might be perfect!
Tree nestboxes are different to indoor ones. Learn all about them here, including how to build your own 🛠
www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-nes...
This is Steve, a seven-year-old Western Bluebird. He’s not thrilled that scientists with the UC Davis Wildlife Museum are looking into his nestboxes every week, but he tolerates it. Maybe he appreciates that the data they gather is good for bluebirds and good for people, too. #birds #birds_matter
April 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is Steve, a seven-year-old Western Bluebird. He’s not thrilled that scientists with the UC Davis Wildlife Museum are looking into his nestboxes every week, but he tolerates it. Maybe he appreciates that the data they gather is good for bluebirds and good for people, too. #birds #birds_matter
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
June 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
#SpringStories
It's World Swift Day! ❤️
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
June 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
It's World Swift Day! ❤️
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
A long-term nestbox campaign in Norway has brought encouraging signs for Ural Owl, showing a clear increase in occupied nest sites.
Only first recorded nesting in Norway in 1886, the Ural Owl has persisted in the country's south-east, particularly along the ..
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Only first recorded nesting in Norway in 1886, the Ural Owl has persisted in the country's south-east, particularly along the ..
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Ural Owl population in Norway boosted by hundreds of nestboxes
A long-term nestbox initiative in Norway has seen the rare Ural Owl increase from a handful of nesting sites to 23 occupied boxes by 2022. More than 450 nestboxes were monitored, showing growing colon...
www.birdguides.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A long-term nestbox campaign in Norway has brought encouraging signs for Ural Owl, showing a clear increase in occupied nest sites.
Only first recorded nesting in Norway in 1886, the Ural Owl has persisted in the country's south-east, particularly along the ..
www.birdguides.com/news/ural-ow...
Only first recorded nesting in Norway in 1886, the Ural Owl has persisted in the country's south-east, particularly along the ..
www.birdguides.com/news/ural-ow...
Drake Mandarin,one of a pair at Skelton this morning. Up to eight present here recently so I've put up a couple of nestboxes for them @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Drake Mandarin,one of a pair at Skelton this morning. Up to eight present here recently so I've put up a couple of nestboxes for them @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
While most of this year's chicks have already fledged, the eastern Bluebirds are all in for round two. Of the 19 bluebird nestboxes I monitor, 4 had activity today. I just hope they don't get hard boiled in next week's heat dome.
#easternbluebird #bluebirdmonitor #birding #citizensforconservation
#easternbluebird #bluebirdmonitor #birding #citizensforconservation
June 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
While most of this year's chicks have already fledged, the eastern Bluebirds are all in for round two. Of the 19 bluebird nestboxes I monitor, 4 had activity today. I just hope they don't get hard boiled in next week's heat dome.
#easternbluebird #bluebirdmonitor #birding #citizensforconservation
#easternbluebird #bluebirdmonitor #birding #citizensforconservation
A Tree Sparrow project on Romney Marsh, Kent
Dungeness RSPB donated some wood
Paul Trodd made up some Tree Sparrow boxes
Me and Martin then put the boxes up and recovered old boxes
13 boxes were used by Tree Sparrows in 2024
Got 26 boxes up this year
Thanks to Simon Ashworth the landowner
Dungeness RSPB donated some wood
Paul Trodd made up some Tree Sparrow boxes
Me and Martin then put the boxes up and recovered old boxes
13 boxes were used by Tree Sparrows in 2024
Got 26 boxes up this year
Thanks to Simon Ashworth the landowner
March 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A Tree Sparrow project on Romney Marsh, Kent
Dungeness RSPB donated some wood
Paul Trodd made up some Tree Sparrow boxes
Me and Martin then put the boxes up and recovered old boxes
13 boxes were used by Tree Sparrows in 2024
Got 26 boxes up this year
Thanks to Simon Ashworth the landowner
Dungeness RSPB donated some wood
Paul Trodd made up some Tree Sparrow boxes
Me and Martin then put the boxes up and recovered old boxes
13 boxes were used by Tree Sparrows in 2024
Got 26 boxes up this year
Thanks to Simon Ashworth the landowner
Late April is a great time to catch up with the local Pied Flycatchers - all the males seemed to be singing this morning and busy checking out nestboxes with some of the females. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Late April is a great time to catch up with the local Pied Flycatchers - all the males seemed to be singing this morning and busy checking out nestboxes with some of the females. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social
Ringing Tawny Owl chicks with John and Wendy Lightfoot from Talon Nestboxes. Under licence. #ShropshireBirding #owls #Tawnyowls #birdringing
May 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ringing Tawny Owl chicks with John and Wendy Lightfoot from Talon Nestboxes. Under licence. #ShropshireBirding #owls #Tawnyowls #birdringing
Artificial nesting sites (nestboxes) can boost breeding opportunities for the Southern Ground-Hornbill. In South Africa, nestboxes increased the number of breeding groups, revealing their value as a conservation tool where natural nest sites are scarce.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#AfricanOrnithology
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#AfricanOrnithology
July 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Artificial nesting sites (nestboxes) can boost breeding opportunities for the Southern Ground-Hornbill. In South Africa, nestboxes increased the number of breeding groups, revealing their value as a conservation tool where natural nest sites are scarce.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#AfricanOrnithology
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#AfricanOrnithology
FDR nails the conservation problem of nestboxes & birdfeeders on nature reserves boosting common blue tits, while the scarce willow tits get squeezed out.
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
FDR nails the conservation problem of nestboxes & birdfeeders on nature reserves boosting common blue tits, while the scarce willow tits get squeezed out.
It's the #beeday!
The #TreeBumblebee likes to nest in the holes of the trees, and also in nestboxes and in buildings. #Bumblebees have a special tool for cleaning their antennaes.
#WildBees #pollinators
The #TreeBumblebee likes to nest in the holes of the trees, and also in nestboxes and in buildings. #Bumblebees have a special tool for cleaning their antennaes.
#WildBees #pollinators
May 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It's the #beeday!
The #TreeBumblebee likes to nest in the holes of the trees, and also in nestboxes and in buildings. #Bumblebees have a special tool for cleaning their antennaes.
#WildBees #pollinators
The #TreeBumblebee likes to nest in the holes of the trees, and also in nestboxes and in buildings. #Bumblebees have a special tool for cleaning their antennaes.
#WildBees #pollinators
Fog all day here, so what better to do than clean out the last 16 of the 30 nestboxes on my Dorset patch! Abandoned clutch in one, I guess is Great Tit rather than Marsh? Every year I find a few Dormouse nests in the bird boxes, even though there are plenty of nestboxes provided just for them!
December 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Fog all day here, so what better to do than clean out the last 16 of the 30 nestboxes on my Dorset patch! Abandoned clutch in one, I guess is Great Tit rather than Marsh? Every year I find a few Dormouse nests in the bird boxes, even though there are plenty of nestboxes provided just for them!
They're all in the newly vacated tit nests, especially nestboxes!
June 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
They're all in the newly vacated tit nests, especially nestboxes!
A beautiful day to be putting up nestboxes in the Carneddau ☀️ ⛰️ 🌳
January 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A beautiful day to be putting up nestboxes in the Carneddau ☀️ ⛰️ 🌳
Assembling a new batch of #tawnyowl nestboxes for our project! Looking forward to putting them up and welcoming more owls this coming season 🦉
@e-carlon-m3.bsky.social
#owls #RaptorResearch #ecology
@e-carlon-m3.bsky.social
#owls #RaptorResearch #ecology
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Assembling a new batch of #tawnyowl nestboxes for our project! Looking forward to putting them up and welcoming more owls this coming season 🦉
@e-carlon-m3.bsky.social
#owls #RaptorResearch #ecology
@e-carlon-m3.bsky.social
#owls #RaptorResearch #ecology
All praise the mighty swifts.
#WorldSwiftDay
[AD=video shows swifts flying into their nestboxes which are built into the walls of a building, and then inside, sitting on eggs.]
#WorldSwiftDay
[AD=video shows swifts flying into their nestboxes which are built into the walls of a building, and then inside, sitting on eggs.]
It's World Swift Day! ❤️
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year.
When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going!
They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.
June 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
All praise the mighty swifts.
#WorldSwiftDay
[AD=video shows swifts flying into their nestboxes which are built into the walls of a building, and then inside, sitting on eggs.]
#WorldSwiftDay
[AD=video shows swifts flying into their nestboxes which are built into the walls of a building, and then inside, sitting on eggs.]
Nice to see 4-5 House Martins going in and out of the nestboxes on my house this morning. My first ones of the year
April 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Nice to see 4-5 House Martins going in and out of the nestboxes on my house this morning. My first ones of the year
Great guide on selecting nestboxes for typical UK/Ireland garden species and where to place them.
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What Nest Box Where?
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January 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Great guide on selecting nestboxes for typical UK/Ireland garden species and where to place them.
Are you ready for the 2025 nest box season?
Keep your fingers crossed for full occupancy at #GwylltHollow and you can follow all their stories on my live streams as they become occupied!
Find out more at:
wildlifekate.co.uk/nestboxes-2025
Keep your fingers crossed for full occupancy at #GwylltHollow and you can follow all their stories on my live streams as they become occupied!
Find out more at:
wildlifekate.co.uk/nestboxes-2025
Nestboxes 2025 | WildlifeKate
The nest box 2025 season is underway here at Gwyllt Hollow!
Folllow the stories from the birds choosing to nest here and even watch them, live, as all have cameras monitoring every moment!
wildlifekate.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are you ready for the 2025 nest box season?
Keep your fingers crossed for full occupancy at #GwylltHollow and you can follow all their stories on my live streams as they become occupied!
Find out more at:
wildlifekate.co.uk/nestboxes-2025
Keep your fingers crossed for full occupancy at #GwylltHollow and you can follow all their stories on my live streams as they become occupied!
Find out more at:
wildlifekate.co.uk/nestboxes-2025
These didn't make it on to the 'official photo of the day' stage today
They are a great sign for us at home though, this is my purpose built free standing structure I made for our mason bee nestboxes
It all starts with one box, and here is our 1st bee of the year investigating the nests ❤️🐝
They are a great sign for us at home though, this is my purpose built free standing structure I made for our mason bee nestboxes
It all starts with one box, and here is our 1st bee of the year investigating the nests ❤️🐝
April 13, 2026 at 3:15 PM
These didn't make it on to the 'official photo of the day' stage today
They are a great sign for us at home though, this is my purpose built free standing structure I made for our mason bee nestboxes
It all starts with one box, and here is our 1st bee of the year investigating the nests ❤️🐝
They are a great sign for us at home though, this is my purpose built free standing structure I made for our mason bee nestboxes
It all starts with one box, and here is our 1st bee of the year investigating the nests ❤️🐝
Nestboxes for tree sparrows controlled: not the right target species in here!
December 21, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Nestboxes for tree sparrows controlled: not the right target species in here!