The temperature today rose to 22.8°C making it the warmest day of the year so far.

Forecasters are predicting it could reach 24°C to 25°C in the coming days, about 10 degrees above the seasonal average.

Good weather, the urge to nest and the emerging leaves on nearby Oak trees have all conspired to produce a very busy day for the little lady.

Their Saturday started at 5.31am for the male, and 6.18am for the female who also carried out a dropping as she left the front door:

By 7.00am she had completed what housework she thought was required, along with a couple of moss removals.

The first delivery of the day arrived at 7.06am:

The male took interest a little earlier in the day and enticed her back inside, allowing her time to look around the box and reflect upon the current state of the building works:

We said yesterday that she was being a little on the slow side in bringing nesting material into the box, and she obviously decided that today she was going to turn it up a notch.

But before you can accept further deliveries, you have to check what you already have and time was spent, sometimes out of view, moving the mass around the floor:

She's controlling the masses here.

She then brought six lots of material in over the next hour:

The male looked interested again, and came to check up on progress, but the lady of the house caught him at it again, and he nearly knocked her off on the way out:

On she continued, with yet more and over the next 2.5 hours she went into overdrive ...

At 9.51am another first for the season, and another box ticked on the Season Checklist when the male brought in some food for her:

You can see another delivery and a lively exchange of views as the male feeds his partner here.

Suitably refreshed from her mid morning snack she continued ...

All of the pictures above show every single delivery made between 9.30am and 12 noon, and they total an amazing 27 which averages one every 5.5 minutes.

A typical scenario is shown here where the male is inside the box pecking at the hole. He leaves, and seconds later she arrives with more straw.

As beak full after beak full arrived it showed that building a nest is hard work. Sometimes what you have brought with you doesn't always go in first time. Here you can see a compilation of some of her more tricky moments.

She continued right through lunchtime, although she was starting to slow down. At 1.00pm the overhead view was this ...

... And by 4.00pm she had completely covered the floor:

A well earned rest was then taken with the odd visit to the outside. It was another 3 hours before she returned inside 7.16pm.

She displayed a few shuffles and played with some of the material before leaving again. On her return she made for her corner and very quickly settled down:

It's been a big day for her today, and she's done well. Given how quickly her head disappeared under her wing, she must have been feeling a little tired.

... Just wait until the boy returns, he's bound to disturb her with his pecking !

The box at the front of the house now has what looks like a completed nest.

Although not really visible in this picture, there is a well formed nest cup, and it must be near complete, or possibly it is and there may even be an egg in there?