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Langstone, Hampshire: She’s brought in clematis, moss and cat fur to build the nest. Soon, surely, the egg-laying will beginFor the past three years, blue tits have nested in a box on the wall beneath my bedroom window, and we’ve become curtain-twitchers, peering covertly out to watch the adults come and go and listen to the peeping chicks. But what goes on inside the cavity? Curiosity piqued, we installed a new box with a solar-powered camera over the winter.On 19 March, a female bl