Two roosting Tits is a good way to start off
the new year. This year we have installed a new type of bird box
camera, with modified lenses, giving low level views of the whole
box.
Two more roosting Tits to start the year with. This year
perhaps the weather will be the biggest story, will the birds have
another fight to survive. Will we get a family of hedgehogs. We cant
wait
The first year we used high res. cameras. 11
eggs were laid, but due to bad weather only eight hatched and survived
up to the females disappearance
The Blue tit parents deserted the nest and
my wife and I decided to hand rear them. You can follow the story from
the point of desertion by clicking the link
The new colour camera gave good quality
pictures. 11 eggs were laid and all 11 successfully fledged, a great
year. follow the story with lots of video by clicking this link
Follow the comings and goings of the many
hedgehogs that live in and around our garden. We have a Hedgehog box
and often have either a short stay or a Hibernating Hedgehog
The BW camera gives a reasonable picture,
but we hope to go colour next year10 eggs laid this year, 1 egg fails
to hatch and 1 chick dies. the remaining 8 chicks successfully fledge
We have been keeping a picture diary of the
many different visitors to our quite small garden in the New Forest,
Hampshire UK
You can look at these by
clicking this link
This is the start, our curiosity gets the
better of us and we start to monitor a nesting blue tit box.
unfortunately terrible weather means the chicks all die. we vow this
will not happen again.
We had forgotten about a bird box we had
installed in a bush. Imagine our surprise when we saw a robin Charging
in and out. We then discovered the nest with eggs already laid