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Overnight stay

Apr 6th, 2008 by sophie

The nest building has progressed really fast this week—it looks almost finished, with a lovely feather lining. We’ve been away for the weekend and hadn’t seen any of the weekend’s recordings, so were very excited to see one of the tits come in to the box to roost for the night at about 7.30pm! Looking back to the early recording from this morning he was there then too, but not yesterday. I’m pretty certain that it’s Buzz, the male, which seems weird as it was Karma who built the nest. Maybe she’ll get to spend quite enough time in it soon, so he gets to guard it overnight meanwhile. Or maybe I’m wrong and it is the female after all!

Here’s a bit of video of him settling down for the night, then waking up and having a little stretch in the morning.

https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/20080406.flv

Tags: blue tit, nest, nest box, NestCam, roost

Posted in NestCam

2 Responses to “Overnight stay”

  1. on 07 Apr 2008 at 7:36 pm1Phil

    Odds are it’s the female roosting. You might be able to tell by how clean the box is after they leave – males poo a lot more than females, and they don’t clean up after themselves!

  2. on 07 Apr 2008 at 8:54 pm2Sophie

    Thanks Phil. I think you’re right- looking back I realise I remembered the different markings wrongly. Whoops. She is so fluffed up that her facial markings look different as well—that’s my excuse anyway!

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