Greba, the mother great tit, in my second occupied nest box is doing well. Her six, week-old chicks are still very scrawny and blind, but they are getting fluffy. Fortunately she is well supported by her mate, and on several occasions I have seen them together trying to pull apart the food that they have collected into smaller pieces before giving it to their offspring.
Have you been enjoying the live videos on BBC 2's Spring Watch's TV channel 601? My favourite nest box features the ten blue tits who have been reluctant to leave their cosy, over-crowded home.
On Sunday morning Deborah helped me prepare four breakfasts, and for the first time she learnt how necessry it is to work with two sets of tools when you have one vegetarian in the group, who were all going to spend the day on their bikes or running in Woodhall Spa's 10K fun run.
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