Clutch is complete: 10 eggs

Yesterday egg number 10 was laid and this morning the was no new egg, so the clutch appears to be complete.

The female has now started incubating the eggs. The male gets her some food every now and then.

The male brings the incubating female a snack

I'm expecting the chicks to hatch around May 12th.

Eight...

Six eggs

Six eggs so far...

Three eggs now

I must have overlooked one egg earlier because this morning there are three!

First egg!

The first egg has arrived!

Difficult to see between the white feathers but there is an egg

New nest in 2016

In 2015 there wasn't much happening in the bird-box and definitely no nest. Therefore I haven't posted anything on this blog in 2015. However, at this moment a blue-tit is building a nest in the bird-box again and it looks like it's almost finished.

This happened 4 days ago:

Nest building started on April 1st, only hours after I installed a new video cable!

The bird sleeps in the box every night, but not yet on the nest but perched in one of the light windows at the sides of the box.

Yesterday I captured this footage of the male feeding the female on the (half finished) nest

Male feeding female, 4 April 2016

Are we going to see the first egg this week?