The diary started this year on Thursday 3rd January.
Box1 | Box2 | Box3 | |
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7 Nov | Monitoring started. Wood shavings put inside nest box | Monitoring started. Wood shavings put inside nest box | |
13 Nov | First recorded visit to outside - a bluetit | ||
16 Nov | First bird inside - a bluetit | ||
22 Nov | Cable damaged by squirrel. Repaired and placed in cable ducting | ||
19 Dec | First bird inside - a bluetit | ||
28 Dec | Bluetit starts to remove shavings | ||
11 Jun | First bird inside - a bluetit | ||
12 Jan | Dispute between bluetits about ownership of box | ||
30 Jan | Box moved 10ft right and external camera added. | ||
6 Feb | Unnoticed by us, great tit managed to squeeze inside box. Box needed bulb change - also took opportunity to remove shavings. | ||
10 Feb | Bluetit has now removed almost all the wood shavings | ||
11 Feb | Box getting visited again following its change of location | ||
24 Feb | Hole plate changed from 28mm to 32mm. Great tit immediately took over box much to bluetits disgust.. | ||
25 Feb | Great tit roosts in box overnight | First bluetit inside after box moved. | |
11 Mar | Nest building started | ||
17 Mar | First observed nesting wriggle | ||
26 Mar | Nest building started | First observed nesting wriggle (in empty box!) | |
27 Mar | Gelda defends box from bluetits | ||
29 Mar | Gelda starts roosting regularly in box | Nest building started | |
6 Apr | Nest nearing completion | ||
7 Apr | Joe fed Sally in nest box | ||
8 Apr | Final touches to nest (fluff & feathers) | ||
10 Apr | Great tit goes inside box! Evicted by Angus | ||
12 Apr | Nest finished off with feathers & fluff | ||
15 Apr | Nest nearing completion - still needs feathers and fluff | ||
18 Apr | FIRST EGG! | ||
19 Apr | Egg 2 | ||
20 Apr | Egg 3 | ||
21 Apr | Egg 4 | ||
22 Apr | FIRST EGG! | Egg 5 | |
23 Apr | Egg 2 | Egg 6 | Great tit explores inside nest box again. No sign of Abby or Angus. |
24 Apr | Egg 3 | Egg 7 | |
25 Apr | Egg 4 | Egg 8 | |
26 Apr | Egg 5 Start of incubation | Egg 9 Partial incubation started | |
27 Apr | Egg 10. Start of incubation | Abby and Angus appear to have given up | |
28 Apr | Egg 11 | Great tit visits box | |
1 May | Box1's nesting material disturbed - Gelda has disappeared. | Great tit does nesting wriggle inside box | |
4 May | More nesting wriggles | ||
5 May | Great tit goes into box and looks at eggs | ||
7 May | More nesting material brought into box. Freda roosts overnight for first time. | ||
9 May | First 7 eggs hatch | FIRST EGG! | |
10 May | Two(?) more eggs hatch | Egg 2 | |
11 May | Egg 3 | ||
12 May | Egg 4 | ||
13 May | Egg 5 - Start of incubation | ||
14 May | First sight of eyes opening | ||
20 May | First wing flapping observed | ||
25 May | First three eggs hatch | ||
26 May | The other two eggs hatch | ||
28 May | 6 chicks fledged around 7:15am 4 chicks fledged about 10:05am |
Ken visiting the nest box infrequently. Freda removes a dead chick. | |
29 May | No sign of Ken all day. Freda removes a second dead chick. | ||
30 May | No sign of Freda or Ken. No sign of life from any of the chicks |
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