Nestbox Update (5th-10th May)

Just a quick update on the situation with the Great Tit nestbox at home. Been getting video files through Dropbox since my last post, but upcoming exams have stopped me from uploading them and posting on my blog. The video below shows a few of the things which have been going on over the last few days. Quite a bit of the footage is in black and white as it was recorded early in the morning or in the evening. 

Basically our Great Tit female is still incubating the 5 eggs in the box, and has been since around the 2nd of May. So it will only be a few days before the chicks begin to hatch. The male Great Tit has apparently been feeding her very frequently, and a couple of these feeds are in the video below. My family aren't watching the camera all the time, so the fact that they've recorded the male feed the female so many times really shows how often he visits. Hopefully this will bode well for when the eggs hatch and there are chicks to feed too. 



Since I made that video a couple of days ago, I've received a few more clips via Dropbox, so I'll sort those out and probably upload those later today. I didn't want to combine the two posts, as it's been quite a while since my last post and I thought it would be good to split up the footage over two posts. Because of this, I've posted this post for the 10th May when the video was put together, even though all the text was written on the 12th. Congratulations if you're still following what I'm saying here!

Anyway, back off to do some more work now, got exams coming up very soon so have limited time for blogging. Thanks for reading and catch you later :)