Two weeks after leaving the nest, I think, the merry band of siblings just visited my feeding station 🥰
I count at least seven in this short clip.
Real beautiful grown up birdies now themselves 🥹🥰
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(2025-05-11)
DAY 72 / breeding day 31
Days hatched: 19
Chicks 8 of 8
Gone 🥰
Obviously during the course of Mother’s Day, all chicks have left.
Will do a video dump of the departure next weekend.
Love that they all made it this year ❤️❤️❤️
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(2025-05-09)
DAY 70 / breeding day 29
Days hatched: 17
Chicks 8 of 8
This is the real “Twitter” 😄
(*sound on*)
Not sure it will really take 3 days until they leave… 🥹
And the ‘rents get almost eaten alive 😅😅😅
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(2025-05-09)
DAY 70 / breeding day 29
Days hatched: 17
Chicks 8 of 8
Our 8 #chickadee chicks are a rowdy little bunch by now 😍
But look how quickly they fall entirely still & quiet when a large bird lands on the nestbox…
3 more days 🥹
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(2025-05-07)
DAY 68 / breeding day 27
Days hatched: 15
Chicks 8 of 8
Our 8 #chickadee chicks already are real little birds 😍
The oldest is 15, the youngest 13 days old. Average time to escaping the nest is 20 days.
So… around Monday 🥲
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(2025-04-30)
DAY 63 / breeding day 20
Days hatched: 8
Chicks 8 of 8
The 8 chickadee chicks are thriving, too. Already sporting preliminary feather prototypes 😅
It’s currently 82F / 28C outside. The otherwise cozy nest is giving Miami vibes 🥵
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(2025-04-25)
DAY 58 / breeding day 15
Days hatched: 3
Chicks 8 of 8 (9)
The hatch is complete.
8 out of 9 made it, no9 was a ‘stillbirth’.
The last chick hatched this morning at 10:35am, 48h after the first.
The ‘rents are busy feeding now 😊
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(2025-04-24)
DAY 57 / breeding day 14
Days hatched: 2
Chicks 4 of 9
This morning the camera caught the hatching of floof #4.
Momma helps a little 😀
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(2025-04-23)
DAY 56 / breeding day 13
Chicks 2 of 9
HATCHING HAS STARTED!
After 13 days of breeding and therefore basically on time (usually 14 days):
The first two chicks have hatched since noon! 🤩
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(2025-04-12)
DAY 45 / breeding day 2
And now there are nine 🤩
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(2025-04-11) DAY 44 -
8 beautiful eggs 🥰
And look at the coloring!
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(2025-04-11) DAY 44 -
breeding has officially started!
Since this morning, momma has started sitting on the clutch during the day. It’s noon already and she’s getting cozy in there 😍
We can expect approx 14 days of breeding.
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(25-04-10) #nestcam
Given the size of the clutch, it’s no wonder Daddy has started feeding Momma from time to time.
She still leaves the nest during the day, though. So, round the clock breeding hasn’t started yet.
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(25-03-10) DAY 43 —
we are at 7 eggs!
Mama has been a little bit stealthy going from 3 eggs up to 7 without showing her work despite the around the clock video surveillance 😄
Average clutch size of a #EuropeanGreatTit is 6-12, so we’re in the target range.
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(2025-03-31) DAY 33 -
More eggs! 🤩
I’ll say it might be three already, could be two though and some stuff, but I’m hoping for three 😁
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(2025-03-29) DAY 31
Finally the #nestcam update we’ve all been waiting for:
We have the first egg!
This morning at around 6am our little momma introduced the first egg into her nest.
Below is a 3min video of that time (around 1:55min in) - no graphic details 😅
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(2025-03-09) DAY 11 - momma stays the night!
It’s 7:17pm and dark outside, and our #EuropeanGreatTit female is starting to sleep on the nest. It’s usually an indication that egg laying is imminent. We’ll have to see how the unstable temperatures play into this.
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(2025-03-07) DAY 9 nest building. Momma is busy this early morning, bringing in new material every other minute.
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(2025-03-07) nine days into nest building, it’s starting to get cozy in there.
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DAY 7: nestbuilding by our #EuropeanGreatTit in our #nestbox.
This is her first checkup this morning at shortly after 8am.
At this point, the female doesn’t sleep in the nest yet. She will only start doing that when the nest *and* all eggs are present and complete.
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(2025-03-03) DAY 5 of nest building. From last years’ experiences, I don’t think it will be long until the #EuropeanGreatTit will be laying her first egg, despite the temps, judging from the seed of the progress. I’m certainly excited 😃
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(25-03-01) DAY 3 of our #EuropeanGreatTit building her nest in our #nestbox while it’s still literally freezing outside here in Germany. She making progress!
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(2025-02-26) — DAY 1
Believe it or not, it’s just end of February here in Germany, and we’re officially at Day 1 of nest building!!! 😍
This morning, our #EuropeanGreatTit brought first stick into the #nestbox to start her nest.
And she’s been busy since!
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(2025-02-25) since Feb 11, we’ve had daily visits by this #EuropeanGreatTit checking out our #nestbox and testing the goods.
The camera in the ceiling received special scrutiny more than once 😁 #birdsky #birdwatching #nestcam
Welcome to this year’s installment of my #nestbox journey, observing a #EuropeanGreatTit building a nest and hopefully raising her little floofs.
10 days ago (2025-02-11) mom did her first house tour and had a lot to say about it (*sound on*) 😁
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