Seven chicks left

Early this morning there were still 9 chicks, but by the end of the morning I only counted 7. Strange how suddenly they can die, but in the previous nest (2014) there were also suddenly many deaths around day 5-6.

In the video below you can see one bird swallowing a massive caterpillar. At that time there were still at least 8 chicks (and earlier I counted 9)

Swallowing a massive caterpillar

The video below shows the 7 remaining chicks this evening. It looks like the ones that died are the ones that were much less developed as could be seen in yesterday's video. There is not much difference now:

Remaining 7 chicks look more or less equally developed