Bluetit Diary    Mar 2010 (5)

 

 

Tuesday 9th March, 2010

We've been trying to get a good sequence of images showing a nesting wriggle for some time, but so far, although we have captured isolated pictures like this one, we haven't managed to get the full sequence.

For this example, the picture above and this one were the only ones the system captured.

Here is another isolated picture - albeit a pretty good one!  It stands by itself in the picture record.

I'm sure this is just a female bluetit playing with nest building.

Well, she's brought a reasonable beakful into the nest box.  What next?

The answer I'm afraid was not a lot! 

A couple of minutes later she's back with more hay.  However, a few minutes later the box is empty again!

Still, she's doing the odd nesting wriggle so we must keep hoping we manage to capture a good sequence soon.  I'll have to try tweaking the i-Catcher parameters again!

We'll get a good sequence eventually!