egg laying

mikehoward · #1 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 10:29 AM

Hi everyone,
we have a pair of blue tits that have made a nest in our camera box and it now looks complete is there a particular time of day that they lay there eggs or can it be any time of day they are quite twitterpated haha

FUDGEY · #2 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 10:54 AM

Usually early morning

mikehoward · #3 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 10:56 AM

Thanks Fudgey we cant wait

Elizabeth B · #4 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by mikehoward

Hi everyone,
we have a pair of blue tits that have made a nest in our camera box and it now looks complete is there a particular time of day that they lay there eggs or can it be any time of day they are quite twitterpated haha

There is sometimes a gap between finishing the nest and the start of egg laying - so don't be too concerned if nothing happens for a few days now. If you look at the Overview page of our website, you'll see the dates of significant events in our birds' lives since we installed our first camera box in 2001.

Birdman1976 · #5 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 01:21 PM

Its possible that they may have started laying already and buried the eggs deep in the nest. We also have a blue tit nest with a camera and earlier this week 5 eggs suddenly appeared one day, the previous day there had been no sign of any eggs at all. It seems the hen had been laying and then burying the eggs in the bottom of the nest. We now have 7 eggs

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Good luck and keep us posted.