Blue Tits

These are the other kind of Tit that occupy our nestbox, They are Blue Tits. The way to tell Male from Female is by the size of the Blue patch on the head, the Male having more Blue than the Female . You will probably notice that all these pictures show a Female, we don't know what happened to the Male, just that one day He disappeared and we never saw Him again, Mabey He had a mistress in the next Hedgrow, who knows?

 The average Brood is anywhere between 7 to 16 Eggs and the usually hatch in around 2 weeks and fledge approx 10 days later, The most sucessful brood in our box so far was 9.

               The Female with Lunch for the little ones, anyone fancy a nice juicy caterpillar?

As you can see, Mum looks a bit ragged due to the fact that she was having to raise them all on Her own.

                                                                    Feed Me Mom!

                                           Wow! There's a whole world out there to explore. :)

 The day after all the little ones fledged, I went to check the nestbox and to clean it out, to my surprise I found this little one still in the box.

I closed the box up and kept an eye on it, happily Mum came back regularly to feed it over the next 2 days and it fledged succesfully.