This morning I was unable to get up early to watch our Blue Tit female to see if she would lay again. She managed okay without my support and was kind enough to leave them uncovered for me to see – as the picture below shows. Now, she is definitely trying to cover up her… Read More Now we have three!
Our Camera Nestbox now has two eggs – the first one is hidden in the cup. Our Nestbox female clearly looked like she was waiting to show him egg number two at 5.40am this morning. He had been at the feeders but never came to feed her. She eventually left without covering the egg –… Read More Where are you?
We have our first egg in our Camera Nestbox! What a surprise this morning. I only had a brief glimpse of it, in the centre of the picture below, before our female Blue Tit tried to hide it. Unusually she was sitting in the nest cup when I switched the PC on just before 7.30am… Read More First for May 1st
Sorry, no eggs to report yet – I think we are close though. Our Blue Tit female is still very busy with her nest which is definitely developing. As I type this now she is in fine tuning things. She is starting to bring odd feathers in now. It is becoming quite a work of… Read More Still busy
Since last Wednesday our female blue tit has slept-over in our camera Nestbox – except for last night when she seems to have had a night out! We were a little worried when there were no signs of her working at her nest last night and she only briefly looked in and left. Good news… Read More Tucked in
Great excitement tonight as our female Blue Tit was seen fluffing up her nest this evening just before it got dark. Then she fluffed up herself like a little ball tucking her head in. We just saw her in time, about 8.40pm just before our box went dark – she is having her first sleep-over!… Read More Sleep-over first
Yesterday was another busy day at the Nestbox. Our nest-building female Blue Tit was working particularly hard in the morning. She clearly fancied a change of colour and brought a sample in as you can see below! Female Blue tit brings ball of red to nest, video 0:10 with background music, try 480p quality. Perhaps… Read More Colour samples
Friday the 13th saw our Blue Tit pair back together in our Camera Nestbox once more. It again was very fortunate I was able to see this as it happened. I was just finishing my last post when I heard bird calls through my speakers. I had a brief look on screen and a Blue… Read More Hungry work
Below is a capture from our Camera Nestbox taken tonight at 6.30pm. As you can see the layer of moss is at last beginning to get quite thick. I wonder now if all the filling and emptying of our box is finally over and the nest will get completed. Tonight when the Blue Tit performed… Read More The moss thickens
Nesting seems to be such hard work. Our Blue Tit pair definitely are definitely making it look it look that way anyway as they build a nest in our Camera Nestbox. The moss goes in. The moss gets shuffled about. The moss comes out. This process has been repeating all week. I would say it… Read More Hard work