Nearly two weeks after the blue tits started incubating their 9 eggs, the chicks started to hatch today (13th May). It was really exciting for the Year 6s who were able to watch the first chick hatch during their ICT lesson! Hopefully, many more chicks will hatch over the next couple of days. It took a while for the adults to notice the chick and to start to try and feed it.
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- Less than a day old
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- Nine hungry 5 day old chicks
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- Two weeks old
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- Growing fast
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- Brooding at night
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- Look at my wings!
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- Both adults busy!
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- Last to fledge
Update: Nine chicks hatched 13-14th May and three chicks fledged 2nd June.
We also have blue tit chicks in the new bird box on one of the Silver Birch trees at the bottom of the playing field. Although there isn’t a camera in this box, we can see the adults flying in and out bringing food to the chicks.
The adult blue tits eat the poo of the chicks to clen the nest.
The blue tits haven’t got feathers yet because they are still so small. They are very cute as well.The mum has to sit on the blue tits because they have no feathers yet and they need to keep warm.
While the children were down at the church for Communion this afternoon, an adult blue tit came into Class 2 throught one of the windows and couldn’t get out again. I managed to catch it and take it outside but it was quite a long time after before I saw an adult feeding the chicks again.
bards spred ther wings to fliy
Our chicks dont fly
We’re not sure whether we’ve still got 9 chicks. The Year 2 ICT group managed to count 7 beaks. It must be quite hard for the adults to fly about because it has been very windy the last couple of days. It rained quite hard at lunchtime and one of the adults decided to take shelter with the chicks.
Our chicks are 2 weeks old, they have feathers and wings and their eyes are open.
The number of chicks in the box has been gradually reducing as time goes by. At 2 weeks old we were down to 6 and until 29th May we had 5. Another 2 disappeared over night so that we are now down to 3 chicks.
All three fledged this morning between 7 am and 8.30 am. The last one needed some coaxing out and fledged a while after the others, the adults very occasionally entering the box to offer limited feeds and to clean out the box.