Great tit and Coal tit

barquar · #1 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 08:39 AM

How many of you have these nesting in your garden or nest boxes would be nice to see how many as its always about the bluetit.?
Last year we had a great tit make a nest but they left it and there were know eggs produced.
Barquar

Biomotors · #2 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 08:48 AM

We had a Great Tit family nesting here in Kent, but after a whopping 5591 visits to the nest, they disappeared, and the three chicks in the nest died. I took the dead chicks out yesterday.

Dogghound · #3 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 08:54 AM

Ive got a great tit nest in the garden, they are currently feeding the young.

barquar · #4 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Biomotors

We had a Great Tit family nesting here in Kent, but after a whopping 5591 visits to the nest, they disappeared, and the three chicks in the nest died. I took the dead chicks out yesterday.

Thats so sad do you think the sparrow hawk killed one of the parents.
Barquar

Birdman1976 · #5 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 10:14 AM

We had a little great tit family. Started nest building on the 11th April, layed 6 eggs and on May 1st two eggs hatched. The two chicks fledged on Wednesday evening at about 8pm

....not seen them since but the parents are still around.

Quick question - The female has still been sitting on the 4 unhatched eggs since the two younsters left the nest. I'm sure they won't hatch. Any ideas why she is doing that? Is she just doing the only thing she knows to do with eggs...ie incubate them?

Biomotors · #6 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by barquar

Thats so sad do you think the sparrow hawk killed one of the parents.
Barquar

No idea. It seems quite likely that something took it. Last year we found a dying collared dove in the garden with the back of its skull cracked open. Poor thing, there was nothing we could do for it.

Jenny W · #7 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 12:47 PM

Coal Tits tend to use more natural sites and so don't use nestboxes as regularly as Blues and Greats. Our nestbox scheme usually has about 50-65 boxes occupied by Blue Tits, 35-45 occupied by Great Tits and 2-9 occupied by Coal Tits (that's rough figures based on the last few years out of around 160 boxes in total).

feathered-friend · #8 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 12:57 PM

We had great tits nesting in our box.

4 babies fledged yesterday morning

Kayleigh · #9 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 04:21 PM

we had blackbirds they have fledged now..

DOXHOPE · #10 (**permalink**) 22-05-2009, 04:39 PM

Had a wrens in my garden last year, didnt know till the day they left the nest, which is not like me, as I can usually smell a nest at 100 paces..seen her this year, but not nesting in my garden,,I think