My Tits are back!

[lostinthelight]

I guess feeding the tits is helping them out but for every mealworm they eat its one less caterpillar from your garden they don't

 

[Notch7]

 

[Mottie]

 

[Mottie]

I can still only see six of the original eight. Strangely, the runt of the brood is still there. Look at the size of it on the left compared to one of the others on the right.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Yes, when the crow released it’s prey, the prey flew off!

Did you Prey for it?

 

[Mottie]

Did you Prey for it?

No, but then again I’m not crowing about it either.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

No, but then again I’m not crowing about it either.

That was a swift response

 

[Mottie]

That was a swift response

Now you’re being a tit.

 

[Mottie]

I can still only see six of the original eight. Strangely, the runt of the brood is still there. Look at the size of it on the left compared to one of the others on the right.

Down to five now. Where are they going?

 

[JohnD]

is mum taking the dead ones away?

or has something got in?

is the hole too big? it looks large in your pic.

is there a perch?

 

[Mottie]

is mum taking the dead ones away?

or has something got in?

is the hole too big? it looks large in your pic.

is there a perch?

Last year the hole was big enough for a Starling to pop his head in. I fitted a plate over the original hole with a smaller (28mm) hole for this year. No perch inside or out. No dead chicks found on my patio although if they did drop a dead one out, a predator may have taken it. I’m pretty sure it’s not big enough for a predator to get in. I can only assume one of the parents are taking the dead ones out. I may position one of my CCTV camera's on the outside of the box. I’m wishing I didn’t have a camera in there now.

 

[fillyboy]

Sorry for your loss Mottie, mother nature can be a harsh mistress at times. Fingers crossed for the remaining ones.

 

[Mottie]

Just the five in there now.

 

[Mottie]

Still five this morning so counting my blessings. While watching the mother feeding them, I saw the funniest thing. I initially thought one had changed colour from blue to pink but it had literally buried its head into the brood and put its bum in the air. The mother looked at its bum and a big white poo came out of it. The mother got hold of the poo sac before it was even fully out and as soon as it was, she flew off with it to deposit it away from the box.

 

[Dork Lard]

Still five this morning so counting my blessings. While watching the mother feeding them, I saw the funniest thing. I initially thought one had changed colour from blue to pink but it had literally buried its head into the brood and put its bum in the air. The mother looked at its bum and a big white poo came out of it. The mother got hold of the poo sac before it was even fully out and as soon as it was, she flew off with it to deposit it away from the box.

Always raises a laff