Last year we had one nest box in the garden and blue tits nested. This year we have two nest boxes, and blue tits nested in both. Today the chicks in ‘nest box 2’ FLEDGED 🙂 I was lucky enough to sit and watch 5 little ones take the leap.
Nesting started back on April 14th with the collection of nesting material. As soon as we see them start to use the nest box we put up extra nesting material so they don’t have to use up too much energy going to find it. They seemed to like the sheeps wool more than the moss this year.
We first noticed them taking in food on May 10th so they have been feeding the chicks for roughly 22 days. We didn’t look inside the nest box, as to open the boxes we have to take the sides off so there was no way I was going to chance disrupting them. So, we have no real way of knowing exactly how many fledged today, but at least we know there were definitely 5. I am hoping to see more of them in the garden but they did disperse quite quickly.
I have heard the chicks chirping in ‘nest box 1’, looking at my spread sheet of data they started to feed their chicks two days later than ‘nest box 2’ so they could also fledge any day 🙂
