Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Blue tits opt for cigarette bin over nesting box

A pair of blue tits are continuing to live in a cigarette bin at a Warwickshire railway station, despite having a nesting box built for them.



The birds began nesting at Warwick Parkway railway station two years ago.



Chiltern Railways installed the nesting box above the cigarette bin in the hope the birds would move to it.


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Chad Collins, the company's head of stations, said: "Customers have had to find somewhere else to put their cigarettes."
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2 comments:

  1. Ratz2:01 pm

    The filters contain enough chemicals to repel the parasitic mites which plague birds. Still can't be good for them mind.

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  2. Anonymous3:06 pm

    What Ratz said. It's also been found that nesting birds will include cigarette butts in their nests, again to deter mites & possibly other parasites.

    Lurker111

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