Blue Tit Chick Flutters into Camera

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BLAZE (male) and BLUEZ (female)
ブレーズ（オス）と　ブルーズ（メス）

Wakes: ~05:00
Sleeps: ~20:00
Eggs: 7
Chicks: 5

Her first chick hatched around 07:10am 4th of May
All eggs hatched as of 04:42am 6th of May

Balcony map and bird information available on the stream at night around 9pm.

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May Update:
Starlings have been attacking the nest, landing on top and even latching onto the hole and poking their heads in. I made a toothpick anti-starling deterrent, however they can still latch onto the hole. All eggs hatched on the 5th, from first egg to last it took 3 days. For whatever reason the Male cleans the chick's feces up properly, but the female eats it! Day 6 the tits are getting bigger and bigger and are developing a dark hue, they're so big even Bluez is starting to not eat their poo, finally...they also wriggle around constantly, the bigger ones seem to tussle for the spot on the top laying face down. Sadly, around 06:15am on the 10th the smallest chick passed away from starvation. Around the 9th they could be heard chirping very quietly, almost like tiny squeaky wheels. 2nd chick has passed away on the 12th.

April Update:
Her 7th and final egg came on 22nd morning.
Incubation started on the 21st, she still is laying eggs, she leaves the nest occasionally to eat (bird feeder rather close to box).
Nest seems more or less complete as of the 12th, she spends less time in the day tending to the nest.
Her first egg plopped out on the 16th morning. She left without realising but came back around 09:11am to find the egg where she left it.
After her 4th egg she has been twitching more at night laying eggs and she has looked a lot more exhausted, sleeping earlier every night and even roosting around 12-1pm on the 21st.

March:
The Blue Tits, Blaze(male) and Bluez(female) started checking and bringing nesting material around late March, and begun building the nest in early April, a little later than other Blue Tits from the other streams I've seen. First few days of nest building consisted of ripping up the wood on the floor, gradually focusing more on kneading her nest material together.

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Peterborough Hampton Vale, UK.

Window added to the side.

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