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Oct
2007
Nest box is opened, one unhatched egg (16 x 12.5mm), the 5th
chick is still there. Photos
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14 Jun Spotted an an adult and chick in the
garden.
01 Jun 3 days after fledging, spotted in the
garden - photos..
29 May They Fledge. Video shows 4 chicks
leaving the nest with views from inside, outside the box and in
the bushes afterwards. The 5th and last one didn't survive. So out
of 8 egss 7 hatched, 3 died, 4 fledged. Download
it. Some photos.
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28 May. MP4 Clips: TailGrab
- chick mistakes parent's tail for food. Day
17, Day
18. Usual feeding and wing flapping.
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24 May Video Day15, mother wakes up, feeding,
more wing flapping and they are calling out loudly when food
arriveds MP4 Download
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23 May Video clip showing 14 day old chick
testing wings. A fly wanders in later causing some alarm! MP4
Download
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23-May-07: There are only 5 this morning. Lost 1
yesterday for sure.
22-May-07: It's now 11 days after hatching,
still 7 chicks. The unhatched egg is still in there somewhere.
Larger video, MP4
to download.
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14-May-07: 7 visible chicks being fed. Pic
of one of the frames showing the 7, video. Download it as MP4
and also the following: Small chicks
big caterpillars! (took 2 mins to swallow!), What are they
fighting
over this time??, another feeding
clip.
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10-May-07 Afternoon: 3 Chicks hatch in the
morning and there are 6 (we think) by afternoon. So 2 unhatched
eggs remain. Clip on left shows them moving about and one with an
open mouth looking for food. video MP4
version of it. The eggs are 15mm x12mm weighing 0.5grams. See
"morning" below for hatching.
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10-May-07 Morning
Blue tits hatching. .
Download: MP4
(5mb) .Chick has just struggled out of the top left egg, the
parent(f?) then comes in and helps the upper right chick by
removing and eating parts of the egg. She finally removes the
remaining half of the upper left egg and takes it outside. Next
clip shows the parent (f?) coming in to feed the chick at the
center top and well, ah-hem, what goes in must come out so she
removes the "waste in the form of fecal pellet enclosed in a
gelatinous sac". In the last clip the other parent (m?) feeds
a chick in the lower right hand side but mammy has to look after
the other end and takes the "message" outside. All the
chicks shown had just hatched (10May07), 2 eggs still remained out
of a total of 8. They should remain in the nest 18 or so days.
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10-May-07: 3 Chicks.
03-May-07: Food fight! Male bring in a nice
juicy caterpillar for the female but seems to have difficulty with
the idea of handing it over!
Download video as MP4,
or AVI
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01-May-07: No change. hatching expected, all
going well, around 8th May? (12-14 days after 27thApr).
28-Apr-07: 8 eggs, incubation continues. Video
shows 8 eggs, female entering nest followed by male who feeds her,
then she settles down on eggs. . Download
it. (1mb, mp4 movie, 30 seconds).
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27-Apr-07: 8 eggs,
incubation
started.
22-Apr-07: 3 Eggs:
Download
(18mb mpg video ,
realplayer or nero showtime)) it. male feeding female,
going to sleep on 3 eggs, then reorganisising the eggs head down
and tail flicking embarriningly up in the air.
Blue Tit: of embarrising moment: download
(8mb mgp) the
movie(sound required!).
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21-Apr-07
Blue Tit nest, 2 eggs visible. Click play on google movie
download
it (5mb MPG movie). 1st egg arrived apr 20.
22-Apr-07 - 3 eggs
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Jan/Feb 07
Roosting Great Tit movie clip, winter of 2006/7 HiRes
(80mb), LowRes
(56mb).Clips taken during Jan/Feb 07 combined into a 4 minute
movie covering dusk to dawn. See the bird entering/leaving,
preening, going to sleep, holding on during a F9 gale etc.
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02-Apr-07
Pair of Blue
Tits making nest, Co, cork (mp4, 12mb). . The first bird is
probably a male and is trying to attract his mate inside, and
probably realised that she is nearby. By him leaving the box, it
allowed the female to go inside. (thanks to Andy of NestWatch.info
for the explaination).
The nest was started on 23 march, but it wasn't a very
organised effort until about a week later.
20-April-07: First Egg
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DIY: NestCam construction details from Andy's Nestwatch.info
(offline but back march 08, and offline again) site here
and some videos
from inside the nest box.
Garden Birds, Co Cork, Ireland 2006, Camera Olympus E-500, Sigma
lense.
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