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We have chicks!!!!!
Yes, at last we have some tiny, tiny blue tit chicks, which have started hatching today! I wasn’t really expecting any until mid next...
May 9, 2010


Nestbox Update
A quick nest box update….. nothing happening in the green nestbox, still daily viewers in the oddbox, although I am losing hope!…. and...
May 7, 2010
Wonderful Minsmere!
Wow! What a place! Minsmere is an amazing reserve…. I just wish I had had more time just to sit in the hides with my binoclars and my...
May 7, 2010
Minsmere Visit
I am away for a couple of days, so won’t be adding anything to my blog until Friday. I am visiting Minsmere tomorrow and hoping to see a...
May 5, 2010
Fern Video
James, the uni student who came to film my foxes, has just sent me the link to a short clip of Fern that he took. This will form part of...
May 3, 2010


Fox…… and Crow!
Fern and Flynn are regular visitors now and the live feed is usually running from about 7pm, if I am here. This is because Fern often...
May 1, 2010


Still interested?
The blue tits are still looking in the odd box on and off and the one that came in today seemed to settle down in the moss for a bit.
May 1, 2010


Feeding Record
My blue tit is sitting tight, incubating her eggs and as I watched the footage today, I thought I would make a note of the times the male...
May 1, 2010


Bumble Bee Encounter
When I watched the footage back today, I saw that my poor blue tit had an encounter with a bumble bee! It came in whilst she was on her...
Apr 29, 2010
I can embed a video!
I have been trying to work out how to embed some videos on here! Finally have figured it out! Here’s one I did of the foxes a couple of...
Apr 29, 2010


Do we have nine eggs?
My blue tit is sitting tight on her eggs and the male is regularly popping into feed her. A couple of times a day, she gets off the eggs...
Apr 29, 2010


Weekend bees and butterflies
With the lovely weekend weather, I saw both orange tips and speckled wood butterflies in the garden. Spent half an hour with my camera up...
Apr 28, 2010


Still contemplating….
The same blue tit pair are still contemplating the green nestbox. Came in and out half a dozen times today. Wish they would get a move on!
Apr 26, 2010


Now we have seven!
My blue tit has now laid seven eggs… could see them quite clearly on the footage today. The female came in quite a lot during the day,...
Apr 26, 2010


Beautiful Fern
It was a lovely sunny evening tonight and at about 7.45pm, with the sun just getting low in the sky, Fern appeared. I grabbed my camera...
Apr 26, 2010
More eggs
Had a quick glimpse of 6 eggs when my blue tit got up this morning! She quickly covered the eggs over and disappeared for most of the...
Apr 25, 2010
Just one a day
I have been doing some research and according to the bluetit blog on the BTO website, the bluetit lays just one egg a day. She will start...
Apr 23, 2010


Are there 5?
I left the camera monitoring overnight in the oak tree nestbox as the female seems to stay all night in there, but by the time I put the...
Apr 23, 2010


Odd box interest again
Quite a few visits to the odd box again today where there is a nest virtually ready made! Don’t know what happened to the two who did all...
Apr 22, 2010


Scruffy back in!
My rather tatty, scruffy looking blue tit has been back into the green nestbox today. At least he is recognisable! Nothing bought in...
Apr 22, 2010


Male Feeding
The male and female have been in and out of the oak tree nest box today. The male has been bringing tiny caterpillars in and, on a couple...
Apr 22, 2010


Definitely 3 eggs!
I thought I had seen 4 eggs earlier in the week, but tonight the female rearranged things and left briefly, showing there are certainly 3...
Apr 22, 2010


More eggs!
When I looked this morning, I think I could see 4 eggs in the oak tree nestbox. Just as well I looked early on, as later the blue tit...
Apr 21, 2010


Flynn Photos
Fern appeared very early tonight…. about 7.30pm and I had not yet put any food out. By the time I went and put some out, she was gone! As...
Apr 21, 2010
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