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Blue Tit 2007
Blue
Tits 2007Link WEBCAM: watch in live the last webcam picture inside the nest!
5 May
Cool
(10-15°), overcast, strong wind.
Its large
legs hung at the edge of the nest on both sides of the bowl, she plunges in the
center to clean and arrange her chicks.
6 May
Still a
little overcast. Wind. (14-
They grow right before your eyes! The pins of the feathers are quite apparent. The heads are
black. The black line on the back becomes more marked.
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A caterpillar. They seem
to be much rarer these last days and Ulysses seldom brings them.
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An escapade
out of the bowl of the nest.
Il est en haut à droite.
Retour au bercail.
Rentré!
The eyes are not yet open,
but one foresees the form under the eyelid.
Overcast.
(16-
Meal of butterfly
and insects.
Her... and him.
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She leaves
with a bag, which she takes along to drop it far from the balcony.
Yesterday
four young great tits left their nest about midday in the garden of the building.
One of the youngsters and a parent came to our balcony.
8 May
Rain and
strong wind this morning. Overcast. (16-
One of
chicks opens partway the eyes.
Hello! What
are you doing there?
That overflows a little.
The large legs of mom trample
on us.
Usual scenes
of the day. The feathers on the wings can be distinctly seen.
Travaux quotidiens.
9 May
Heavy
overcast, a little rain (16-
On the mom's
shoulders.
In white
dotted line, the shape of the cap takes shape. A walk outside the bowl. The
eyes slits are guessed.
Meal arrival.
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This
evening, at 20h30 two chicks left the bowl of the nest. This often happens in the
course of the day now that they are larger and normally they return quickly without
problems. This is not the case this evening. They try to regain the nest but
take the wrong direction and end found in a corner of the nest (at bottom right
in the photograph). We put a little lighting, anxious that they remain out of
the bowl of the nest. The mother brought beakfuls on several occasions but both
remain obstinately in their corner.
You would
say that there is a hole at this place. They try to go up the slope but it seems
that it is too stiff and they give up. Photo 21h02 on left and 21h19 on the
right. They are there, waiting, since 20mn. The mother returned and stirred up her
youngsters as usual. For the moment she does not deal with the 2. We lit a
little.
21h20 and always in the
corner. It is happy that they are two; at least this will allow them to keep a
little warm. Suddenly, the mother seems to see them. And this time she does not
ignore her two bandits and goes to see them, feeds them. On several occasions
she advances her beak, touch them. One starts to go up beside the mother.
One
succeeded to extract himself from the hole. It made a roundabout and has just
returned, it the one higher than his/her mother's back in the picture. The
other still hesitates. It is almost 21h30 and darkness grows. But his/her
mother is concerned and from time to time touches him with her beak. It seems
to encourage him. Finally it decides and goes up the slope. Everyone returned
under mom's feathers.
10 May
Slightly
overcast (17-
Two are not
too many. The youngster has his eyes open.
The eyes are quite open.
The yellow of the breast's feathers appears. The mother pricks the pins of the
feathers.
Chicks
wander more and more.
A yellow nozzle with
four small appeal points.
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Another youngster is wedged in the same hollow. The mother attends him from time to time. He does not seem to be ill, because at each feeding one can see him open his large beak (with some difficulty because he is just out of the field of the camera, only the IR camera allows to see a small part of him). It is wedged under the edge of the nest. The mother stops to nourish him from time to time. There are now 3 hours that he is wedged. We decide to give a small helping hand. Just the time to open the nest box, to lift him and here he is, again on the nest, where he hurries to return within the others. It is warm in the nest. The chicks keep silent and nuzzle at the bottom of the nest as soon as the door is opened. They are difficult to see. The mother will return very quickly. Was it necessary to give the small help or not? It appeared so miserable trying to go up and falling down!
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This night another chick did not survive. The one which we helped? Difficult to know. Is it for this reason that it remained in the hole? Another one, at the left of the photograph, is quite small.
11 May
Overcast.
(16-20°).
Early in
the morning (it is 7h), the mother withdraws the dead chick from the nest and
tries to take it out. It is already rather large and does not pass by the nest
box hole. She will try many times. She stops from time to time to go to seek a
meal and to nourish its brood.
It will
take her 3 hours to take it out. At 9h50 she succeeds finally, just before we
help her.
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We will take a long time before being able to count the 7, because part of the nest was modified and now materials hide the sight of the borders of the nest.
They are 7 but one of the chicks on the left is really small and behind the others.
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One now
distinguishes the black mask of the youngsters.
Impressing
isn't?
Hard day
for the poor little thing.
The two seldom meet in the nest. But he comes regularly to nourish his youngsters. Many caterpillars today.
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