Bluetit Diary    Mar 2025 (20)

 

 

Friday 28th March, 2025

This is an interesting sequence.

Max comes to the nest box with a morsel of food in his beak.

Meg moves forward to take it but Max seems strangely reluctant.

After a fair amount of prevarication by Max, he eventually leaves without giving it to Meg.

"That wasn't very nice of him."

"What do I care!"

Ten seconds later Max is back with the food still in his beak.  Amazingly, the pair go through the same procedure, not just a second time, but after that a third.  And still Max doesn't pass the food to Meg!  I suppose he ends up eating it himself.

Clearly, Max is taking some time learning to be a good partner.