Nest Box Web Cam

[bradlo]

Welcome to the South Wales Group, Bradlo, you did it!! And I've seen inside your nest box - I think - because all I could see was a heap of grass and feathers so it could be under your bed for all I know!
Your greenhouse is looking good - you toms are twice the size of mine

Far too tidy to be under my bed VG !

I hope I haven't planted the toms too early!!!!

The nest box is a bit quiet at present, with the birds just flitting in with in the odd feather every half hour or so ! ( We have a motion sensor on the camera ...which records every time there is some activity!!!!)

The calm before the storm ...I hope !!!!

[bradlo]

Nestbox update!!!!!
We have eggs...there is a direct link on my blog ( see below!)

[veggiechicken]

When do we bring out the cigars?

[bradlo]

When do we bring out the cigars?

If last year is anything to go by we don't....5 eggs hatched 4 got to almost fledgling age...but all died!!!

All a bit traumatic really !!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta love nature!

[redser]

How come they died? Is that a normal percentage?
Congrats on the new arrivals, you'll have to wet their heads tonight.

[bradlo]

How come they died? Is that a normal percentage?
Congrats on the new arrivals, you'll have to wet their heads tonight.

Not sure really...an ornithologist friend of mine sys that it was a particularly bad year for blue tits last year...I had a horrible feeling it might have been because we were feeding the parents with fat balls...although he says this should not have made a difference...
But to be safe this year we will not feed them at all...they can find their own natural food for the chicks!
Fingers crossed for them !!!!