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Blue Tit Diary
Snapshots from the cameras. Herring Gull snapshots at bottom of the page. We will download recorded live images soon.
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11th May -11 eggs

Hen sitting on nest

19th May - only 3 eggs to hatch
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20th May - only 1 egg to go

25th May

29th May
 
We placed two tiny cameras in two of the bird boxes on the school grounds. The cameras were connected to two televisions in the school foyer and we were able to work here and watch the blue tits sitting on their eggs or feeding the noisy chicks. Next year we will try and keep ma more detailed online diary of the breeding birds. All seven chicks fledged and we watched them leave the nest box during our literacy lesson....
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The eggs hatched on Sunday. When we came to school there were7 chicks and two eggs. This is the female sitting on the chicks!!
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The male (George) with the seven chicks.
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The male  feeding the chicks.
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The male (George) has now started visiting and feeding either the female or, as seen, here feeding the chicks himself. The male has a white forehead which you can't see in this photo.

Herring Gulls

 
We placed a web cam on the herring gulls nesting above the secretary's office. We didn't see the chick hatch but it was able to walk very soon after hatching and kept wandering past the camera , returning most afternoons to sit in the nest. The parents kept dive-bombing visitors to the school!