Wasps nest in nest box (Where Else)

I have a wasps nest in my garden this year, for around 12 or 13 years Blue Tits have nested every year in this particular box, but not this year. I wonder if many of them didn't make it through the bad winter

we had.

      

So its wasps, I should really say its a queen wasp, who's decided to take up residence this year and start building her nest in the vacant nest box.

  I personally don't mind them being there, the box is high up on a wall in a corner, so their flight path is well above my head if I'm in that part of the garden. They seem to fly straight for the woods at the back of my house without bothering to stop around in my garden, so its a quite amicable situation.If the nest was in the ground or low down and I didn't know about it and stepped on it, or had young children around to think about, then that would be a different matter.

 

Its quite interesting to watch their comings and goings. I had a video camera on them the other day, and when I slowed the clips down I was surprised to see how clumsy they can be when coming in for a landing at the nest box hole. Its was quite amusing when I saw the two wasps collide.

There is usually at least one, of the wasps on guard at the entrance to the nest, sometimes two or three.

It can be a little unnerving  taking photos of them close up, the camera is about five feet away from him here. He watches me carefully, as I watch him, they do have quite a menacing, alien looking face as he sits there, assessing the threat level I represent. I can imagine at this point hes on amber alert!!!!!, potential danger detected within comfort zone mode. They are not cute, but they have an attitude that deserves, nay,,, demands respect.