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Did you follow my link 5 posts up? http://www.bird-cam.co.uk/about-bird-camcouk
This has the stuff that I used. There are many places that sell complete kits including the box though.
Bird-Cam 2011
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Did you follow my link 5 posts up? http://www.bird-cam.co.uk/about-bird-camcouk
This has the stuff that I used. There are many places that sell complete kits including the box though.
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Mrs Blue tit has provided us with the first egg of the 2011 season!
But you have to be quick because she is very good at hiding it!
This is the first video from this morning, taken at 6.25am as she left the nest from her overnight stay and you can clearly see the egg but she's had it covered for the rest of the day
We are getting on average an email every 2 minutes and have over 5,000 emails in our birdcam folder!!
But you have to be quick because she is very good at hiding it!
This is the first video from this morning, taken at 6.25am as she left the nest from her overnight stay and you can clearly see the egg but she's had it covered for the rest of the day
We are getting on average an email every 2 minutes and have over 5,000 emails in our birdcam folder!!
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Mr Blue Tit will come back on the scene once the Mrs Tit has finished laying and started to sit on the eggs. He will then bring her food (caterpillars) and will contiune to do this when the chicks have hatched!
Everytime she moves in the box the motion sensor of the software sends an e-mail to us. We just review them if we notice something has happened in the box and post them up to the site.
We had hoped to have a live stream but the PC it's running on is proving a bit tempremental this year!
Everytime she moves in the box the motion sensor of the software sends an e-mail to us. We just review them if we notice something has happened in the box and post them up to the site.
We had hoped to have a live stream but the PC it's running on is proving a bit tempremental this year!
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We now have 4 eggs! After the boiling hot day we've had Mrs Tit left her eggs uncovered today. We know from previous years that once blue **** start to lay their eggs they will lay 1 egg per day. This year Mrs Tit has been keeping all her eggs totally covered up which has made getting video quite difficult.
Maybe she has left them uncovered to give us an easter egg treat!
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Maybe she has left them uncovered to give us an easter egg treat!
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Ohh, Bird smoke
Don't breath this XD
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Went into the shed yesterday to get the strimmer and found a nest at the back with a bird sitting on eggs. Nice to see but have left well alone as I don't want to scare her into abandoning her nest.
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See Mrs Blue tit all snuggled up in her feathery nest before getting up, having a stretch and going for a quick fly break outside.
As she gets up you will see her 9 eggs in all their glory.!
Mrs tit is spending more and more time in our nest box now and Mr Tit has started to feed her whilst she sits on the eggs.
As she gets up you will see her 9 eggs in all their glory.!
Mrs tit is spending more and more time in our nest box now and Mr Tit has started to feed her whilst she sits on the eggs.
Awesome! 
just finished making a new bird table thing and wish I had added a house area, would be cool to have birds nesting in it.
There Is a small space up top but I'm not sure it would be enough room, plus I'd have to put the hole for them to enter underneath some how.
just finished making a new bird table thing and wish I had added a house area, would be cool to have birds nesting in it.
There Is a small space up top but I'm not sure it would be enough room, plus I'd have to put the hole for them to enter underneath some how.
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We have chicks!
In this video you will see Mr tit bringing in food for Mrs Tit. Mrs Tit attempts to feed it to her chicks but they are so newly hatched that it's all a bit too much!
You will then see Mrs tit is giving her other chicks a helping hand out of their eggs. Look closely and you will see her tapping the eggs and eating the eggshells that her chicks are hatching out from.
If you look carefully you will also catch glimpse's of her newly born chicks.
In this video you will see Mr tit bringing in food for Mrs Tit. Mrs Tit attempts to feed it to her chicks but they are so newly hatched that it's all a bit too much!
You will then see Mrs tit is giving her other chicks a helping hand out of their eggs. Look closely and you will see her tapping the eggs and eating the eggshells that her chicks are hatching out from.
If you look carefully you will also catch glimpse's of her newly born chicks.
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Awesome!
just finished making a new bird table thing and wish I had added a house area, would be cool to have birds nesting in it.
There Is a small space up top but I'm not sure it would be enough room, plus I'd have to put the hole for them to enter underneath some how.
Generally not recommended to combine a nest with a bird table as it often disturbs the nesting birds when others get close to the nest to feed.
They may either not nest there at all or abandon the nest part way through.
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In this video mum is sitting on the nest with the chicks underneath her when dad comes in with some delicious looking caterpillars! Mum makes way for dad to feed some of the chicks before flying back out for more food.
At the moment it is a constant feeding frenzy in the bird box with both parents flying in and out to bring back caterpillars for their chicks.
When they first hatched we counted 8 beaks (out of 9 eggs) but with so many growing bodies and beaks it's now difficult to tell how many we have!
The chicks are now 6 days old and as you can see they have grown an enormous amount in those 6 days since they were born!
Sorry for the lack of updates but due to technical issues with our e-mail we are having huge problems getting the videos of our chicks
At the moment it is a constant feeding frenzy in the bird box with both parents flying in and out to bring back caterpillars for their chicks.
When they first hatched we counted 8 beaks (out of 9 eggs) but with so many growing bodies and beaks it's now difficult to tell how many we have!
The chicks are now 6 days old and as you can see they have grown an enormous amount in those 6 days since they were born!
Sorry for the lack of updates but due to technical issues with our e-mail we are having huge problems getting the videos of our chicks