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A FAMILY of North Yorkshire blue tits have chosen a bizarre spot to set up home - in the gun barrel of a Second World War Spitfire. The ‘blue bullets’ have built a nest and taken up residence in the Mark 9 Spitfire, which is based at the Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum near Malton, North Yorkshire. These brilliant pictures show the pair of adult blue tits and their young - looking like they are being shot out of the gun barrel. Jonny Pye, an archivist at the former prisoner of war camp, said the birds had been returning to the unusual nesting site for a number of years.

Inmates finished the construction of Eden prisoner of war camp in Malton, North Yorkshire, in 1942 The camp first housed Italian troops captured in North Africa, before making way for Germans in 1944 They were sent to work during the day on local farms and were trusted to return each evening Archivist Jonny Pye said there were no recorded escape attempts, because camp was a 'fairly happy place'