Diary

There are 7 healthy chicks in the nest box at the moment just on the verge of fledging! They are all crowded around the hole looking out, practising wing flapping and getting encouragement from both parents. Unfortunately 2 of the chicks that hatched didn’t make it as they hatched a couple of days after the […]

There are still 9 healthy chicks doing very well in Box 1. Both parents are bringing in a very nutritional diet to the young birds with varying sized caterpillars, bugs, insects and seeds. The female is now quite distinguishable from the male due to the fact she is looking very scruffy! The young birds are […]

The eggs have started hatching in Box 1. It is quite hard to see how many have hatched yet but we think 6 have hatched and there are still 3 eggs left. Both Blue Tits have been busy today bringing in lots of food although the male doesn’t seem that confident feeding the babies and […]

The female Blue Tit is still patiently sitting on her clutch of 9 eggs waiting for them to start hatching, which we reckon will be around the weekend. The male is frequently bringing in caterpillars and other insects as you can see in these pictures, which is a good sign for what is yet to […]

The female is very patiently sitting on her 9 eggs, regularly getting food brought into her by the male. Looking at the dates we estimate the eggs to start hatching in just under a weeks time so we will have the camera computer ready to record to catch all the action. Don’t forget to check […]

This morning Mrs Blue Tit revealed 7 eggs in her nest. She has been sitting on the nest in the box for most of the day, leaving for short breaks every now and then. The male Blue Tit has been around in the garden and occasionally dropping in on the box with a present of […]

Well after a mad couple of weeks, looking at the cameras this afternoon there are now 5 eggs in Box 1. This morning when looking at the cameras it didn’t look like there were any at all and we were wondering if we were going to get any eggs but they had obviously just been […]

After abandoning box 3, the pair of blue tits have decided that they actually prefer box 1 and have started to build a nest again! They were originally building in box 1 but stopped and moved to box 3. Now back in box 1 the nest is well underway with lots of material being brought […]

We woke this morning to find one egg in Box 3 from the Blue Tits sitting right in the middle of the nest cup. This looked very promising and that egg laying was underway. However, the blue tits only made a couple of visits to the box today and have not yet returned. The computer […]