National Nest Box Week aims to get as many people as possible to put up nest boxes in order to help our breeding birds and other wildlife. Each year thousands of people become involved over the week in some kind of nest box activity. There are hundreds of wildlife groups, bird clubs and schools across the country that organise working parties in order to make nest boxes.
Individuals contribute too by putting up nest boxes in their gardens or nearby woodlands.
National Nest Box Week also acts as a reminder to those who already have nest boxes to go out and remove last year s old nests from the box. By putting up a nest box during National Nest Box Week you will be providing our wildlife with an invaluable and safe nesting site, a resource that is disappearing at an alarming rate in the countryside. It will hopefully also give you hours of pleasure as you watch the birds undertaking their nesting duties in your nest box. The nest box pictured below is suitable for Blue, Great, Coal and Marsh Tits and, if the entrance hole is made slightly bigger, for sparrows. What is much more critical is the thickness of the wood and this should be at least 15mm.