21st May 2021 We lost a chick, another uninvited guest Blue tit nest box live camera highlights

What a bad day. Noone is entirely sure how many chicks are still in the box. There was five at the end of play on the 20th and now there s three or possibly four. The maximum number of chicks seen on camera at any one time today was four but that doesn t mean that there wasn t five in their. One chick was removed from the box at 7. 58pm. We ll have to wait until the morning and see what s what. Hopefully it ll have stopped raining by then. A third uninvited intruder gave us all a shock today (00:49). Especially our female. If anyone knows what type of bird this is please drop a comment and let us know. Our female was just about to give one of the chicks a big caterpillar when the interloper announced itself. It looks like she stress ate it afterwards In other news one of the chicks was having a good wing flap and they seem to enjoy an afternoon snooze so much the parents are having to pester them to eat.