If you remember, last night we thought Fluffy left the chicks by themselves overnight for the first time. Fortunately, that was confirmed this morning when the first image the external camera picked up was Fluffy bringing some food to the nest box.
Here she is at the entrance with a small green caterpillar in her beak. The time is five past five!
Barney arrives only a short while later at twenty past five.
The chicks are getting more and more active. At home we watch the goings on in the nest on our TV as well as on the computer so that we can get the sound from the nest box as well as pictures.
Today there has been a frequent whirr of wings as one chick or another puts in some flapping practice.
Two chicks seem to have been out of the nest cup more than the others. Of course, we cannot be certain that's it's always the same two, but we think it's likely!
While one of the pair did some preening (the chicks near the top of the nest cup seem to be continually preening themselves these days) the other was taking an intense interest in the exit hole.