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 Blue Tits 2007

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

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19 April

Always nice weather, 21°C in the afternoon.

She incubates her 12 eggs; the laying is finished. Great songs and recreations too. She seems to have changed color. Her plumage is duller and does not have any more the same blue as in the beginning of spring. The yellow of the belly is more gray than yellow. He keeps his beautiful colors.

She should incubate about fifteen days, if all goes well the first chick should hatch towards the 29-30 April.

 The meals always consist of green caterpillars.

 

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It is rare for her to be in stroll, and even less without him. Sometimes she is also slow to answer to his call when he comes. Ulysses shows a huge patience, remaining several minutes with the caterpillar in the beak. He awaits, poses his caterpillar between the claws and takes it again to ensure a good hold. The small sequence above lasted 6-7 minutes and during all this time he kept the caterpillar in his beak. Definitely, he did not understand. Curiously he did not enter the nesting box but he tried several times to look inside and ended up making a decision…

She broods, periodically turning over her eggs to preserve an equal temperature.

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20 April

Nice and hot. (10°C-24°C)

She broods and almost does not leave the nest.

Ulysses always provides the meals.



















She remains much more in the nest than last year, she almost does not move, she sleeps or turns over its eggs. The previous year the weather was much colder and bad and she leaved often as her male brought supplies very seldom. She was probably obliged to go hunt by herself more often, leaving her nest to the cold (end April 2006 it made only 5°C-10°C).

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21 April

Same superb weather.

She broods, and broods, and broods. And he hunts caterpillars.

When her man arrives, she calls with small cries. It is her whom one hears the first if one is close to the nest, well before hearing him. Is it that we don't pay enough attention compared to the continuous noise of the city, or they communicate by sounds which are inaudible for us?

The lunch is delivered at domicile; she did not move and put out her beak just what is needed

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22 April

Always beautiful and hot weather. 10°C-24°C

7h the breakfast arrives, served by Ulysses. She leaves to take it outside. 7h15 the second caterpillar arrives delivered to the bed. The coming and going continues one after another all the morning.

 

Gourmand end of morning

Quite green and fleshy.

Un petit dessert.

Ulysse arrive le bec plein!

Not there?

In his beak, a green caterpillar.

He entered the nest with its caterpillar but Penelope was not there! He looks in the bowl of the nest.

Roosted on the edge of the nest.

Today she often perches on the edge to her nest to tidy up her feathers.

She is much more active and sleeps less. She stays often on the edge of the nest or leaves a few minutes to roost on the branch close to the nest, or goes for a small stroll in this splendid Sunday.

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23 April

Always nice and hot weather (26°C in the afternoon).

She seems to have enough of being confined in the nest and she jiggles more and more. She goes to the door, passes the head, leaves. And she sings. She likes to exit to sing near the nest. We do not hear him much any more.

The supply of caterpillars continues. Here one sees well the nails of the titmouse which enable they to cling even to vertical surfaces.

She left on his call. After having swallowed the caterpillar she still claims for more with quivering wings.

This time, a brown carterpillar.



She has just taken the caterpillar offered at the end of Ulysses beak.

She perches on a branch.

Certain big caterpillars require taking its time! She will spend more than one minute to eat this caterpillar. She passes it from one claw to the other, and poses it on the branch.

Monsieur and Madame great tit pass regularly on the balcony. They quickly examine all the corners of the terrace. You just see them there and they have already jumped elsewhere. They go down easily on the ground and move hopping. Blue tits, on the contrary, prefer to remain in the trees and almost never descend on the ground.

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24 April

Beautiful weather, slightly overcast mackerel sky. Quite hot: 27°C in the afternoon.

Breakfast.

Hunting is good. Later in the course of the day, here he is, with a caterpillar. As usual he calls her. But no answer. Then he extend his neck to look inside the nesting box. He holds his caterpillar at the extremity of his beak.

It ends up going to see with through the door, but always nobody.

Then he returns on his branch and swallows the caterpillar. A small reward well deserved.












Penelope continues to leave often. In fact she does not stop changing place. It is very hot today (27°C!) and in the nesting box there must be even hotter. She broods one minute then goes up on the edge of the nest, grooms her feathers lengthily. Badly placed feathers seem to be quite unpleasant. Or something itches, because she is unceasingly featherdressing or scratching herself. Then she puts head at the entry and remains a moment there (a very dark image for the webcam), returns a minute again, looks at its eggs lengthily, then exits and roosts on the branch close to the nesting box, still combs her feathers and sings. And if Ulysses calls, she leaves to take the green collation which he brings. Sometimes, she goes fro a stroll, but returns very quickly.

The swifts arrived today.

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