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May (Page 1) 2011
Hedgehog News
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| This update is very late due to ill health
The great tits are mostly fully grown now and
demand food almost constantly. Of the ten eggs laid two did not
hatch and one chick died very early in its life |
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| Mum or dad has shouted an alarm call and
they have all gone very quite |
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| As I have mentioned before the overhead
camera is playing up, so these photos are the best we can do for now |
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| Proper little great tits now, except for
the gape which has not fully receded |
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| Getting ready for their first flights lots
of stretching, preening and beating of wings |
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| The first chick to have a look |
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Five minutes later and off it goes |
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| The chicks always seem to go up at first
then just a few seconds later head for a perch |
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| Number two plucks up courage |
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| Again it goes up and over to the other
side of our garden |
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| Just one minute later and the third chick
has a look |
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| Straight away it launches itself out in to
the scary world |
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| Just like before the forth chick follows
just a minute later |
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| This one was to quick for the camera, as
sensibly it headed for the large tree |
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| That leaves three, who do not look keen to
go today |
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| The following morning at 06-35am the first
of the final three emerges |
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| You can see how dark it is, and off it goes |
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| Again one minute later 06-36 the
penultimate chick takes flight |
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| This is therefore the sixth chick to fledge,
and again it flies' towards the other side of the garden, this must
be because its siblings are calling from there |
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| The last of the magnificent seven sits and
contemplates what it should do |
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| It feels vey lonely and takes several
minutes to pluck up the courage to even have a look at the outside
world |
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| It finally musters the courage, almost ten
minutes after number six left |
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| Struggling out of the entrance just as
the dawn fully breaks |
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| However its flight is somewhat erratic and
it almost does a back flip, but it makes it in the end. |
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| Meanwhile in nest box 2 the first of the ten
blue tit eggs is hatching |
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| Mum is very carefully helping it out of
the shell, and consumes the entire shell. This is to replace the
calcium that she has lost in the egg laying process |
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| The chick struggles to lift its tiny head |
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| Mum shoots off to find food for her first
little chick Click forward for the
continuing story |
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