| Diary blue tit nestbox: 2018/04/14 - from today no over night great tit in the blue tit nestbox 2018/11/01 - a great tit in the blue tit nestbox 2019/03/22 - The first pieces of moss in the blue tit nestbox! 2019/05/17 - Two young bird fledged, no over night guest in winter 2020/04/01 - Great tits begin to build a nest, the narrow entrance doesn't bother them 2020/04/07 - Since tonight the great tit stays over night 2020/04/13 - Six eggs 2020/04/15 - Eight eggs, breeding begin 2020/04/26 - Two young birds 27.04.2020 - Six young birds 14.05.2020 - Four chicks fledge 17.05.2020 - The other two ones are waiting and fledge today 14.11.2020 - Since today a great tit stays over night in the nextbox 28.03.2021 - Nest-building start 12.04.2021 - 5 eggs 13.04.2021 - 6 eggs 14.04.2021 - Start breeding 21.04.2021 - No more eggs visible in the morning, predators? 28.04.2021 - Nest removed, 5 eggs were still there, very strange 29.04.2021 - Now a great-tit builds a nest! 07.05.2021 - 7 eggs, start breeding 26.05.2021 - No young bird, nest abandoned |
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(Older entries are listed here!) 2018/04/09 - For the first time no great tit at home tonight  2018/04/11 - Starting nest-building 2018/04/17 - from today no over night great tit, but still sometimes here during the day 2018/05/16 - nest-building since three days, first egg tonight 2018/05/22 - 7 eggs 2018/05/23 - 8 eggs 2018/06/02 - The first young birds 2018/06/10 - I'm counting 5 little great-tits 
 2018/06/19 - 5 birds fledged! Day 17, never so early. 4 birds at noon, followed by the smallest in the afternoon (rightmost photo) Flying to the near plum tree, cheeping for more food from mama... 2018/10/28 - Late after a warm summer and autumn, the first visit of a great tit in the nestbox! Temperature at night marginal above 0°C 2019/03/20 - Some moss in the box, nest-building begins 2019/03/25 - A piece of wood from behind the entrance lies in the moss. The great tit doesn't make it alone to get it out, so I climbed the ladder and helped out 2019/04/08 - The first egg 2019/04/16 - Seven eggs, breeding start! 2019/04/30 - the little great-tits arrived 2019/05/18 - Only one young bird remaining, flapping its wings, but mama can't lure 2019/05/19 - Email from a viewer: she recognized the claw is caught by something 2019/05/19 - I carefully open the nestbox, mama escapes and I am able to rescue the youngster! Fine hairs from the nest were wrapped around the claw, I placed the bird underneath the nestbox observed by its mama. After a short while both are vanished. 2019/10/21 - A new overnight guest in the nestbox 2020/03/18 - Best spring weather, the great tit begins to carry moss into the nestbox 2020/04/07 - First egg 2020/04/09 - Two eggs 2020/04/18 - Nine eggs, breeding begin 2020/04/19 - Ten eggs 2020/04/28 - First fledglings 2020/04/29 - Five youngsters 2020/04/30 - Eight! 2020/05/11 - Very low temperatures with night frost 2020/05/12 - One young bird after the other dies. Because of the frostiness? 2020/05/14 - This night the last great tit dies... 2020/05/21 - A new nest! 2020/05/25 - First egg 2020/05/31 - Seven eggs 2020/06/11 - The first fledgling 2020/07/02 - Two young birds fledge in the early morning! 2020/08/13 - A great tit builds a new nest, quite late in the year I think 2020/09/10 - Sometimes the great tit is in the nestbox and stays over night 2020/10/03 - Since today the great tit stays over night regularly 2021/03/22 - Improving nest, soft padding 2021/04/05 - 7 eggs 2021/04/06 - 8 eggs 2021/04/07 - Breeding start 20.04.2021 - Die Jungen schlüpfen, 8 kleine Vögel! 10.05.2021 - 4 Jungvögel ausgeflogen, ein fast vollständig entwickeltes Küken lag tot im Kasten 12.05.2021 - Nest entfernt, zwei Stunden später wird von einer Kohlmeise ein neues Nest gebaut! 15.05.2021 - Das erste Ei 21.05.2021 - 7 Eier, Brutbeginn 01.06.2021 - 6 Jungvögel schlüpfen 17.06.2021 - Alle 6 fliegen aus, schon am 17. Tag! 23.10.2021 - Ab heute übernachtet wieder eine Kohlmeise 14.03.2022 - Ein paar warme Tage, der Nestbau beginnt! 06.04.2022 - Das erste Ei 13.04.2022 - 7 Eier, Brutbeginn 28.04.2022 - 7 Jungvögel schlüpfen! 19.05.2022 - Vier Kohlmeisen fliegen morgens zwischen 06:45 und 07:10 aus 08.10.2022 - Seit heute übernachtet wieder eine Kohlmeise 19.03.2023 - Der Nestbau beginnt! 05.04.2023 - Das erste Ei! 13.04.2023 - 7 Eier, Brutbeginn 24.04.2023 - Was ist passiert? Nestmaterial hängt morgens aus dem Einflugloch und liegt unter dem Baum! Eine Meise zwitschert unermüdlich im nebenstehenden Baum, das Nest ist zerwühlt, aber alle Eier noch da. Ich habe das Nest wieder ganz ordentlich hergerichtet, es wird aber nichts nützen... 
 30.04.2023 - Wie fast zu erwarten war kam keine Kohlmeise mehr, und heute morgen war das Nest wieder zerwühlt 05.05.2023 - Nest entnommen, die Eier sind diesmal teilweise beschädigt...  01.11.2023 - Eine Kohlmeise kommt nun wieder jede Nacht 14.03.2024 - Das erste Moos für ein Nest! 04.04.2024 - Vier Eier 12.04.2024 - 13 Eier 14.04.2024 - Brutbeginn 29.04.2024 - Meise brütet nicht mehr, neues Moos wird eingebracht, dann geschieht nichts weiter 20.02.2025 - Gestern und heute übernachtet eine Meise, nachdem der Nistkasten den ganzen Winter leer war 02.03.2025 - Moos wird eingebracht 27.03.2025 - Heute nacht schläft wieder die Kohlmeise im Nistkasten |
Hereinafter the both b/w live cameras, built in at the top of the nestboxes, more than 20 years old, work good with IR light. Connected to a small AXIS videoserver for the internet. and here some addational infos. |
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For the presentation of the picture I use a script from
Stefan Bion. By the way, during the last years he
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Who "shows up", and when?March to april: nest-building, great tit stays over night in the nestbox.May: if you are lucky, breeding the eggs and fly out of the fledglings. June to september: the nestbox is normally empty. October to february: when it's getting noticable colder at night, a great tit spent the nights every year. When it dawns the bird "comes home", cleans its feathers and sleeps until sunrise. |
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| This timetable is a quite good orientation.
If the sky is clear the displayed sunset time matches with the homecoming of the great tit, mostly a bit later.
If it's cloudy or even bad weather, often much earlier. |
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In a short movie is show how the last young bird survived in 2010. On 2010/05/29 it looks out of the nestbox, working up the courage to fly out. Slow motion shows quite good their flaps. The movie is recorded with the nestbox-cam and a SONY HDR-HC9 HDV camcorder. |
The next movie shows the activities in the nestbox 2014. On march 13 the nest-building begins and on 2014/05/12 nine young great tits fledge! The movie is recorded with the nestbox-cam and a Panasonic HC-X929 AVCHD camcorder. |
