And other stories from the garden
Posted in NestCam on May 5th, 2010
Turning the telly on this morning we saw a single chick in the nest. By the time I got home from work there were five. Or at least I think there were. They’re kind of difficult to count—but there were still three eggs of the eight left unhatched.
It’s later than we’ve had before, by a [...]
The blue tits have had a busy day nest building today. Here’s a few minutes out of their day:
https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/20100405.flv
And this is what they finished up with:
I did mean to post something on Saturday, but I kind of got distracted. I feel I should record the events of Saturday though, if only so that in future years we can look back and see when it all happened.
So, as reported on Twitter, on Saturday 27th March we saw the first signs of [...]
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.
https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/20090501.flv