And other stories from the garden
Posted in NestCam on May 8th, 2009
We captured some wonderfully entertaining video for you today. The female has been busy on her housekeeping, crawling headfirst under the chicks, waving her tail at the camera whilst chicks popped out from under her left right and centre.
Unfortunately during it’s long and tortuous journey from the video recorder to the internet it got deleted, [...]
Posted in NestCam on May 1st, 2009
We’re pretty sure they’re are eight chicks now. This little chap doesn’t seem to be too keen on being sat on though.
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We have chicks! Looks like six of the nine eggs in the Blue Tit Big Brother house have hatched so far, five days earlier than they did last year. The female (is it Karma?) is still sitting on them most of the time, which can’t be very comfortable for mum or chicks. They’re pretty ugly [...]
Posted in NestCam on Mar 16th, 2009
Turning on the TV last night we saw the first signs of nesting material in the brother house nestbox. And a decidadely smaller bird fast asleep.
When it rearranged itself a few minutes later it was clear that this was a blue tit, not the great tit which has been roosting all winter. This evening the [...]
Welcome back! The 2009 nesting season is almost upon us and things are looking interesting around the nest box.
Over the winter a great tit has taken to roosting in the box most nights. We’ve been wondering what would happen come spring.
Lately, a pair of blue tits have been hanging around quite a lot. Yesterday I [...]