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 Blue Tits 2007

NEW link  WEBCAM: watch in live the last webcam picture inside the nest!

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5 April

At 20h20 she enters to go to bed.

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6 April

Very good weather, no more wind, temperature in rise. 10°C in the morning.

From early dawn, at 6h30 he comes to sing under her balcony. At this hour, he is not the only one, everyone sings. The blackbird which came to pose for the photo at the end of March has a nest in the interior garden of the building and sings since 5h in the morning. She is already awaked and moves around in the nest

6:37:16                                                   6:37:18                                            6:37:20                                           

6:37:22                                                    6:38:57                                           6:39:54

6:47:56                                                     6:55:50                                        6:55:52

She doesn't stop installing materials of the nest under her. 

Finally she shifts a little and…

This time no doubt, this is well the first egg. It is difficult to know if it is from this morning or from yesterday, because a few moments later it is not visible anymore.

For a good technique of egg covering, plunge!  Watch VIDEO   (214Ko, 42s)

For one second she lets to us foresee the bottom of the nest and the egg Watch VIDEO   (308Ko, 51s)  Then she hides it carefully. Then she leaves and they fly away together immediately. It is 7h10. At 7h18 she returns already to make sure that all is well covered. Until 10h20 she will come every 10 minutes to check that all is well! Then they leave, as usual, much longer.

She does not hatch and remains on the edge of the nest. She will start to incubate in the day only almost at the end of the laying and then, normally almost all the eggs will hatch at the same time.

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7 April

Overcast this morning. 10°

 Of course he is there at 6h40. We too! She is awake like yesterday. She arranges its nest.

 Difficult to see in the nest, she does not shift out of the way enough. At 7h02, at last, she shifts just for 5-6 seconds.

Two or three eggs? The doubt still remains. I think just two. She should lay an egg per day. She carefully covered up the nest center and left at 7h07 and then they both left

Morning walk.

Return a little more than an hour later. It is 9h40; they left since more than one hour.

A short passage in the nest at 12h, then nobody anymore. They left and for all the afternoon, they will return only at 18h10! It is the first time that they leave for such a long time (6 hours!) and we began to be anxious. She returned to lie down with 20h20.

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8 April

Happy Easter!

Fine weather, 15°C.

This morning Penelope left at 7h15. Her Ulysses comes to welcome her with an offering at the door of the nesting box and offers us these beautiful acrobatics.

They take off simultaneously.

A(small) fresh straw for the nest (finally It's the thought that counts).

Under the noon Sun.

 

Penelope pays only very short visits in the course of the day. 7-8 visits in the morning to do a small cleaning. And 4 very short visits this afternoon spaced by two hours. They did not disappear so a long time today, but we seldom saw them

 

At 20h10 she lies down but he deems that it is a little early. He makes an attempt to enter the nest; one sees his head at the door. At first sight there seems to be a chilly reception, but a second sight reveals that he has something in the beak, maybe it is a small supper.

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