Great news for all followers of this blog. The eggs have hatched this afternoon and the parents are frantically dashing to and from the nestbox with various offerings for the newly-hatched youngsters.I'm helping a little by providing mini mealworms which they seem to be hoovering up very gratefully.
I'm in the process of taking pictures for you all to see and will upload them whenever it is possible.
In the meantime hold on to your hats, the next few weeks as raising young tits is a difficult business, full of ups and downs.
I'll be helping out with mini mealworms handouts but fingers crossed we'll see some blue tit fledglings in about 3 weeks.
Speaking of fledglings I met a blackbird fledgling this morning while on a bike ride down the country lanes by the house. In a fluster it clung to the outside of a hawthorn hedge by the side of the lane and we both looked at each other in curiosity for about 30 seconds before both carried on our separate ways.
The picture above is one of the parents picking off a mealworm to take it back to the chicks.
Further pictures will be available on my next update.
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