Great tits on video
Apr 12th, 2012 by Chris
I guess there’s a chance this isn’t what you were expecting when you clicked that link, but this is a blog post about the bird Parus major, the great tit. This year we have a pair of great tits nesting in our big brother nest box. I suppose I ought to change the name of the blog really.
They started nest building three or four weeks ago whilst we were away in Gambia. We haven’t been very good at recording things this year, so I’m not sure when laying started, but they’re now up to eight eggs. Mrs Great Tit seems to be sitting now, although she does spend a good deal of time out of the nest. The male is bringing her food in regularly. Here’s a few snippets from this evening.
They’re a lot tidier than the sparrows we had last year. Lovely as sparrows are, they don’t make good viewing as they just filled the nest box with grass and completely obscured the camera. The great tits are far more co-operative. It’s not the first time there have been great tits in the box—a great tit roosted in there in 2009—but it’s the first time they have nested.