During April, Great Tits built a nest and laid five eggs. Incubation has started, so you can expect to see a bird on the nest most the time. Hopefully we should see our chicks hatch week commencing 11th May. (SATS week!)
Update: our our chicks have hatched
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- Incubating the eggs
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- Five eggs laid
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- Turning the eggs
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We went to watch the great tit sitting on the eggs in the infant classroom because we can see the live images there. We saw the 5 eggs all snuggled up and warm.
wow i’ve just been looking at the bird cam and its really exited.
Are the children going to name the chicks like our school
Goodness, how will we tell them apart to give them names!!?
We must be very close to hatching now as the Heage chicks have hatched out today. It’s a pity that the nesting material which the Great tits have used this year, is reflecting the light so much. This really affects the picture in the mornings. We will have to hope for a cloudy hatching day!
The male and the female were giving the baby bird a caterpillar.
they look flufy but they are not.
The chicks are little and wet. They are tiny. When they hatch they are soggy and can’t walk. After the chick hatched the mother eats the egg shell because it’s full of vitamins. So that is why there isn’t any egg shell in the nest.
new chics how grate beter than choclit my reel name you no wel it lest streton handly no
new chics how grate beter than choclit my reel name you no wel it lest streton handly no its Aaron
i saw the chicks hatch today.they have hatched 2 eggs
To chicks have hatched ,they have just eaten some catapillars.
Two chicks have hached in this box the chicks look like jelly beans.
Lydia says – you are very lucky to get the eggs hatching in your box. We just saw the Great Tit feeding the yongsters. Ethan says – your eggs have hatched before ours. We are hoping our eggs hatch soon on either Friday or Saturday. Ebony and Lucy say – we hope you are happy and excited about the chicks.
Our first chick hatched in time for registration yesterday (12th May), much to the delight of the watching children and adults! The 2nd hatched at around 11am and the 3rd at home time. We had to wait until the evening to see a 4th chick and the final 5th chick hatched out overnight or early the next morning. Soon after the first chick hatched, one of the adults brought in an inappropriately large bug to try and feed the youngster, but as time went on, they seemed to learn that smaller creatures were better! Sometimes we observed the adults stretching a caterpillar between them, possibly in an attempt to make a smaller morsel.
The chicks don’t eat dried food because it doesn’t have water in it. They eat worms, caterpillars.
The chicks have all hatched and she has fed them. She ate the poo from the chick!
What a lovely little bunch of chicks. They are all nestled up sleeping peacefully after their feed
The little chicks are fluffy and getting bigger.They are cute and little. The chicks are always hungry. They have a wide beak, Their necks are long.
They stretch open their beaks so the mother bird can put the food in. Her beak goes in their mouth.
They’ve got tufts on their heads.
I went into school during the half term to video the chicks, all five were doing well although one seemed a bit sleepy. Maybe it was the hot weather. One of the adults brought in a big worm which one chick swallowed whole! They also had a big spider to eat, which after being dipped in and out of several of the chicks mouths to see if it would fit, it’s legs dropped off so that it did!
Unfortunately, it looks like a couple of the chicks died before the weekend. However, the other three fledged this morning 🙂