Summary of Events - 2010

The diary started this year on Thursday 3rd January.

	Box1	Box2	Box3
3 Jan		Monitoring started
4 Jan		First visit - a bluetit
17 Jan			Monitoring started
19 Jan			First visit - a great tit
21 Jan	New box mounted and monitoring started. First visit - a bluetit
30 Jan		Two birds together inside box
17 Feb	Two birds together inside box
18 Feb			First visit from a bluetit
20 Feb	First nesting material	First nesting material
29 Mar	Fight over possession of box
7 Apr		Della roosting in box for first time
9 Apr		First feed inside box
11 Apr		First feathers brought into box
12 Apr		Nest completed
15 Apr			First nesting material
16 Apr		FIRST EGG!
17 Apr		Della disappears. Last seen 11.30am shortly after being fed by Sam
18 Apr	Donna starts roosting in the box
23 Apr	FIRST EGG!
24 Apr	Egg 2		FIRST EGG!
25 Apr	Egg 3		Egg 2
26 Apr	Egg 4		Egg 3
27 Apr	Egg 5		Egg 4
28 Apr	Egg 6		Egg 5
29 Apr	Egg 7		Egg 6 and start of incubation
30 Apr	Egg 8 and start of incubation	Sam is still visiting the box each day.	Egg 7
1 May	Egg 9		Egg 8
2 May	Egg 10
12 May			First chick hatches
13 May			Second chick hatches
14 May	Three chicks hatch		Two more chicks hatch
15 May			Fifth chick hatches
18 May			Chicks' eyes start opening
19 May	Chicks' eyes start to open
21 May			Rosie stopped roosting with her chicks
24 May	Chicks can be heard cheeping		No sound connected to this box
25 May			First wing flapping observed
26 May	Donna no longer roosting with her chicks
27 May	First wing flapping observed
30 May			First chick flew the nest sometime between 11.05 and 11.35 while we were off the air
31 May			The remaining four chicks fledged.
4 Jun	All three chicks fledged between 6.08 and 6.45am