Blue tits set up home in golf club ashtray

A family of blue tits have taken up habitat in the ashtray outside a golf course clubhouse in Denbigh, Wales. And after discovering that the chicks had hatched, staff say the ongoing mystery of why cigarettes kept ending up on the ground was solved: the birds had been pushing out the butts to make room for their new brood.



Kylie Jones, who works at the bar at Denbigh Golf Club, said: 'We thought something odd was going on when we saw the butts on the floor. It went on for about a week and then we realised there was a nest in there.

'We put a sign on the ashtray (and) the next thing we knew there were these little birds looking like bald aliens.' And the blue tits have started to use the holes in the ashtray as windows to enjoy the recent good weather.



Despite the potential danger of living in the ashtray, however, the family are also well protected by four signs warning off smokers. Staff said that the extra signs were needed after visitors thought the first one was a hoax.