Returning users

If you took part in Nest Box Challenge in 2009, click the button to the right to
sign in. You don’t need to re-register your boxes or gardens unless some details have changed or you’ve moved house. Click here for more....

New Users

To take part, all you have to do is:
• Click on the button to the right to register for the survey.
• Follow the instructions here to register your garden and nest box(es)/nests.
• Enter your observations regularly throughout the breeding season.

Important things to remember

• Register your box as soon as possible – you don’t have to wait until a bird uses it.

• Check your boxes at regular intervals and tell us what’s inside (click here for advice on checking boxes).

• We really want to know about empty boxes as well as ones that are used so we can work out what proportion are occupied.

• Keep checking your box until the end of August – most nest box species don’t fledge chicks until the beginning of June, and some species may have a second brood in the summer.

• The most detailed information can be collected by looking inside the box/nest (click here for advice on looking inside boxes/nests). However, if you don’t want to or can’t look in your box/nest, you can still take part in Nest Box Challenge (click here for advice on what to record if you can’t see inside).