Bluetit Diary    Apr 2015 (7)

 

 

Friday 24th April, 2015

There are lots of eggs here!  If Suzie and Rosie are still both laying, there should be 18 of them.

Our two females are too alike for me to tell which of them this is!

This is the first time we have seen Pete, the male, for ages.  Good to see he is still around!

Suzie and Rosie both want to sit on the eggs.  As a result, Suzie is reduced to standing on Rosie's back! 

Another shot of Pete feeding a little green caterpillar to one of the females.

In Box1, Paul has brought some food into the box only to find Meg missing.

"Where on earth is she?" he seems to be saying.

Meg follows him into the nest box and graciously begs for the food.

This shot was only taken 4 seconds after the previous one.

The same thing happens an hour later.  First Paul comes into the nest box ...

... to be followed a few seconds later by Meg.

A great tit has a look at Box2 ...

... invoking a fierce reaction from the female inside.