Bluetit Diary    Apr 2009 (17)

 

 

Tuesday 28th April, 2009

Whatever else Fay is up to, she is making her nest very chick friendly with all those feathers - and colourful too!  Recently she seems to have found a source of orange fluff!

Six seconds later, Fay has returned and the orange fluff has disappeared!

Ah - there it is!  She must have temporarily tucked it beneath her.

There also seems to be another bit of orange fluff half hidden by her right hand side.

What on earth is she going to do with it?

She's going to take it out by the looks of things.  Perhaps she thinks the colour clashes with the colour scheme of the chicks' home!

Yes - there she goes with it!

Bella keeps on incubating! 

Every now and then when she leaves the nest for a few minutes, I think I have miscounted and there are more than 12 eggs - but a calmer re-count soon squashes that idea!

It is just before 7pm and Fay has left the nest unexpectedly.  This time she hasn't even bothered to try to hide her eggs and we can see four, or perhaps even five eggs!

Let's hope she lays a few more!