Day 14

Meg first left the nest at 4:24 this morning. Before feeding the chicks, and before Ted arrived, she cleared the nest cup of overnight poo. Ted arrived a few minutes later at 4:39 - bringing a caterpillar with him.

It was another sunny day today, but much cooler - which I am sure was appreciated a little by the baby blue tits! By the evening we had completely clouded over and it looked like rain was on the way.

All seems ok in the nest box today. All the babies are feeding well - one seems smaller, and maybe weaker, than the other four, but he's still asking for, and getting, plenty of food.

Ouch! Meg stands on the head of one of the babies while she checks the nest cup for cleanliness!

More wing stretching. Wing flapping should start in a couple of days. Got to exercise those wings ready for fledging day!

One of the nestlings pops out of the nest cup for a while. They have spent virtually all day in the cup today with the weather being cooler.

S-T-R-E-T-C-H



Are they ever not hungry?!

From this...

to this... in a split second!





Meg was still busy feeding when I turned the lights off at 9:15pm.