Great tits finds home in ashtray

Smokers visiting a nature reserve in Kinross have been told to make alternative arrangements after a great tit built a nest in a cigarette bin.

Despite a range of ready-made nest boxes around Vane Farm at Loch Leven the bird has opted for the bin outside the visitors' centre door.

Luckily the nest was spotted by a visitor who saw the bird emerge from the box before it was used by a smoker.



The RSPB said there were currently about four baby great tits in the nest.

Raymond Welsh, the visitor centre and coffee shop manager, said A couple on holiday from England told me that a tit was nesting in the cigarette box. "At first I thought they were mistaken and that the birds were just looking for food. Then I looked in the box and there she was sitting quietly on her nest.

"It's just great that nature is everywhere."