Bluetit Diary    May 2014 (1)

 

 

Thursday 1st May 2014

Full house (well almost!) - two parents and six chicks in Box1.  The seventh chick seems to have disappeared overnight.

Wills seems to be playing his part well.  In the first 5 minutes of recording this morning, he brought food to the chicks 6 times!

It's still difficult to see how many chicks have hatched out in Box2.  However, I think you can see here that 3 eggs are still in one piece.

A good picture of 6 eager chicks in Box1 together with Wills.

In Box2 there are now at least 7 chicks ...

... and three eggs.

So there is just the little matter of whether the eleventh egg has hatched or not!

There are clearly 8 chicks and 3 eggs here - and as 3 + 8 = 11 the missing item above was a chick!

Box1 still has 6 chicks.

Another shot of the 8 chicks in Box2

Finally at the end of the day, there are still 6 chick in Box1.