This is a live feed from our birdbox, nestled in a honeysuckle bush. We set it up back in 2021 and to our amazement, blue tits moved in, laid eggs and fledged in 2021 and 2022. Sadly no one moved in permanently during 2023, something spooked them during nest building.
We have created a Facebook page to make it easy to share and follow their journey https://www.facebook.com/HoneySuckleBirdHouse.
Here are the latest posts
Some sad news to report. We woke this morning to see all chicks had died overnight. Looking at the footage, 5 chicks went to bed fidgeting as usual, until around 3:30 when 1 of them passed, with the others all passed by 4am.![]()
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Scanning the footage shows no intruders, so can only assume they ate something poisonous. Maybe the wrong insect or insects who had eaten insecticide. ![]()
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Mum and dad are still about. We’ve just cleaned out the nest, hoping they might give it another go
Bob and Babs update. lost 1 chick, 7 doing well.
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8 eggs hatched. Bob and Babs are feeding them and cleaning up after them 🤣
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Bob and Babs working hard to feed and cleanup after the chicks.
What’s going on here? 😀
What’s going on here? We’ll leave it to you decide 😉
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Whilst you can’t see all the eggs, we believe she’s laid 5 so far…. Maybe Bob’s trying to make sure there’s more!