Bird Boxes project - About

The project first started in 2007, with 10 Blue Tit, 10 Great Tit & 40 Robin boxes being installed in Lower Fulingpits Woods. Around 18 boxes were successfull.

The aim of the continuing project is:

• To help out our "feathered friends", whose homes are being lost to houses and development.

• To involve the local residents.

• To monitor the situation of the birds in our local park.

The local residents were involved in making the many Robin boxes, and putting up all the boxes. We must say a BIG thank you to all our volunteers for their help.

In November 2007 & January 2008 some of the Robin boxes were converted into "tit" boxes and moved around to different areas of the park.

There are a total of around 68 boxes installed around the park, with some of the old Dormice boxes being used by Blue Tit's.

Ben Kirby has volunteered to monitor most of the boxes during the 2008 nesting season, but we are asking people to help him. The results will be used for research and also put live onto the Vinters Valley Nature Reserve website.

Each of the boxes are labelled so they can be identified, when looking through the records.

With the boxes now moved around, the park has been split into different zones for the 2008 season.

The plan, for 2008, is to carry out weekly surveys, from March - June, of each box to see which boxes are being used, by which species and what is happening.

All the results will be collected and at the end of the nesting season handed to our warden (Steve Songhurst) for the parks records.