Most birds seem to have finished laying. We can see 10 blue tit eggs in box 1, 9 in box 4 and 8 great tit eggs in box 3. The camera has been removed from box 2 since there has not much activity and it seems unlikely that anything will nest there. An external camera […]
Box 1 – 3 blue tit eggs. Box 2 – Blue tit roosting overnight. Box 3 – A great tit moved in on the 15th, built a nest and laid the first egg today. Box 4 – 6 or 7 blue tit eggs laid. Box 5 – It looks like the blue tit may have […]
Yesterday a female greater spotted woodpecker visited box 1. The box has aluminium reinforcement under the outer wood so the blue tits should be safe whilst inside. The first egg was laid in box 1 today. A great tit visited box 3 and immediately started to bring in nesting material and did some nesting wiggles. […]
The first blue tit egg appeared in box 4 today. There may also be egg(s) in box 5 but nothing is visible via the video feed. A mono camera has been re-fitted to box 3 but no activity has been observed yet.
Box 1 – Blue tit nest close to finished. The internal camera was replaced with a 1/2″ colour one and the external one by a high resolution IP camera. Box 2 – Blue tit roosting but little daytime activity. Box 3 – A few bits of nesting material. No camera yet. Box 4 – Blue […]
Until now we have stuck with iCatcher 3.3.13 since it has run very reliably for the last 3 seasons and will continue to be used for the stills captures, for now. Having seen the peregrine videos from Norwich Cathedral, we could not resist trying iCatcher 4. In order to get the best out of the […]