The Sleeping Bird

Just so you can see how little a sleeping Great Tit, actually looks like a Great Tit

Nesting Continues

She is spending a lot more time on the nest and is being fed by the male.

Its been a while but we have seen both birds again today. The male popped in to feed the female while she was sitting on the eggs.

21st April

We now have 7 eggs. should be around beginning of May for them to hatch.

Apologies for the quality of the photo, we are using an iphone taking a photo of our TV picture. Best we can do.

20th April

We now have 6 eggs. Apparently they will lay up to 12 eggs adding extras each day.

April 19th

Spotted something which looked like eggs very early on but the nest was covered the rest of the day. Later that evening we did see 5 eggs.

18th April

Not seen much activity but the nest is getting more full and the Female is still spending the night.

14th April

Still nest building but now there is enough there that the Female (we assume) is spending the night.

12th April

Still building the nest. Fascinating to watch how they do it.

11th April

Both Birds Spotted building nest. Trying to work out how to tell them apart. Adam is thinking of possible names for them. To assist we tried taking a photo but haven't seen much of them to get photos of both.

10.47am

2 Birds spotted in and out of the Nest. Constantly in and out nest building

10.00 am

First complete look at the bird and its a Great Tit. Definitely nest building.

Day 1 - 10th April 9.40 am

First Noticed a bird entering the bird box at 9.40 Plugged the camera int the TV and waited for it to come back. It looked like there had been some activity but needed to see it !

Start Up

Hopefully this is the second Blog I am setting up. This one will track the progress of our bird box which has been populated in April 2009