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A Great Tit has been roosting in the colour birdcam box for at least a month now. It comes in just before it get dark and preens itself before tucking its head in and going off to sleep.
I came across your site by accident now I find myself looking at the Great Tit web cam when I look at various Peregrine web cams. Trying to catch it going in to roost!!
After being absent last night, the great tit is back in the box tonight.
Both this box and the B&W have got birds in tonight, (25th), must be colder than last night.
12.15 pm April 7th,Great Tit just leaving box after depositing start of nesting material.The amount of material in the box suggests only a few visits with nesting stuff.
First thing this morning there was nothing there!
The Colour Cam has not been live for a couple of days, it is back on line this morning, (12th), and hey presto it looks as though the nest is nearing completion.
I haven’t seen the great tit yet but it does seem to be adding nesting material.
just seen the great tit in the box.
More nesting marterial as been added should be seeing eggs soon
There was a bee in the colourcam box this afternoon
Great Tit roosting in Colour Cam box tonight.
Roosting again tonight, really ‘tucked’ into the nest.
When a nest has been completed and the bird starts roosting in the nest again, this can be an indication that egg laying is about to start. The eggs may be there but covered up; time will tell!
Eggs !!!!!!! (4)
There may be more; keep watching!
Yep….5 Eggs
BRILLIANT
Can only see three eggs?
I think I can see the faint outline of two more under the nesting material. Hopefully they haven’t been predated; one year some Great Tit eggs were destroyed by House Sparrows and the nest was taken over by them.
Great Tit in box
There are definitly 5 eggs, saw them as she left the box this morning.
Incubation last between 13 and 15 days it is only the female that incubates the young are fed both parents and leave the nest after 18 days
Still five eggs
She left the nest for a couple of minutes still 5 eggs
If i have done my maths right should see chicks next week
still five eggs today
Definitly 3 young and 1 egg. Brilliant!!!
Thanks Dave, what a surprise to log on and see that we have chicks? I think I can see 4 chicks with 1 egg left to hatch. I hope they can cope with all the bad weather forecast for the next 24 hrs.
The young leave the nest after about 18 days and continued to be cared out of the nest for 4 to 6 days
One of the parents has just fed the young
When our static feed isn’t updating we are probably live streaming from our colour birdcam box at:
http://stretton-handley-church-of-england-primary-school.j2webby.com/
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The male has just fed the female which then she fed the chicks
One week on after hatching we still have 5 healthy chicks. Although their eyes are not open, they have downy feathers over their bodies and no longer appear pink.
Could only see 4 chicks when one of the parents came to feed them
They are definitely all there. Perhaps one wasn’t hungry!
Yes there was definitely 5 gaping yellow mouths wide open for breakfast just now!
Their eyes are open today.
First night when the chicks haven’t been brooded. I hope they can keep themselves warm; it’s cold outside tonight!
Sadly, it looks like the chicks didn’t survive last night. The chicks were not brooded the previous night and feeding frequency appeared to be less during the day yesterday. No feeding was observed from late afternoon and the chicks were not brooded overnight again. By morning there was no movement from the chicks. It’s possible that something happened to the adult female and the male was unable to provide sufficient food, particularly as the weather was particularly bad yesterday. A shame because the weather has improved dramatically this weekend.
I have been doing some reading about Great Tits it’s possible for a second brood
I’m not sure whether they would around here, I think they can go for second broods further south where they tend to start nesting a bit earlier. There’s plenty of nest boxes around school if they want to try again, assuming both adults are still around.