The blue tit chicks all fledged today. By the time the recorder came on (about 6:30 I think) one had already gone. It was well over two hours later by the time the last one left the nest box, with big gaps between each one. Which doesn’t really make for a nice snappy video clip [...]
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There are seven chicks and they’re looking very different in this film to the last one. Their eyes are open, they’re stretching their wings, competing for space and food, being fed very frequently. Oh yes, and pooing frequently too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWj0h263j6o
The chicks hatch
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 [...]
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