So far so good, all six eggs have hatched and survived their first few days!
Despite my early worries about the parenting skills of the newly hatched chicks they’ve all got through their first few days. It was very tricky to count them all to be sure, but it’s just possible in this very poor picture (sorry π ) to make out six distinct yellow gapes. π Hooray!
hooray!! π π
Horrific news from next door: a sparrow frightened off the blue tit parents and then went in the box and murdered the blue tit chicks π :angry: π
It was then seen to be wiping its beak as they do after eating…. as the birds are different species does this count as cannibalism????
I guess, looking for an upside to this shocker, sparrows are endangered whereas blue tits are not… :zip:
Hmmm … I wouldn’t think sparrows are endangered. Both sparrows and blue tits are protected in Hungary but the ‘value’ of blue tits is 10x higher. :geek:
Sadly it’s true, in the UK House Sparrows are endangered and Red Listed. π
Unbelievable!!! π― Hungary is still full of them and hopefully it will stay so. I can hear them all the time in our garden, they are rather loud and can never stop chirping.
Nature is a shocker. π― … and all captured on camera?
Blue tits are much cuter than sparrows, so I’d rather see them in the bird box than sparrows – I’m sure that’s bad π³ .
… and strangely I haven’t felt shock and horror at the sight of the live caterpillars that the blue tits are munching away at.
Very nice! fgedfbeddf