Her first egg of the year. 🥰 Hopefully she will lay one a day until the brood is complete (5 or 6?), then 14/15 days later we should see some young chicks.
Low level lighting just after sunrise as the nest illumination is slowly dimming the IR and bringing up the RGB LEDS so no sudden transitions.
Last year laid 7 and successfully fledged 4. One chance per year
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Seven eggs and counting🤞 Watch this space!

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I think we have settled for eight.
Bless her. Now spending much more time on her clutch, so 14 days and we might see some young ones. Here's hoping 🤞

This morning we woke up to 4 more family members 😍

And today we saw Dad turning up after Mum had spent c. 2 weeks sitting on the eggs alone.

They have both been in and out all day looking after their new brood.

Its lovely to watch and a hopeful distraction from all the c**p that makes to news at the moment.

I'll post some more tomorrow but with 7968 photos (just today!) I need to sort them out a bit!

Continued: https://home.social/@ColonelDare/110373540104981291

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Attached: 2 images Five days old and hungry 😋 Note the colours are a bit off and some movement blur due to low light levels and fidgety babies. Nice to see six healthy babies even if two of the eight eggs haven't hatched. Previously (sorry didn't link it properly): https://home.social/@ColonelDare/110351634782379258 #BirdPhotography #birds #nest #BirdWatching #photography #photo #BlueTit #RaspberryPi

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