The chicks fledged early on Monday 24th. May - 3 weeks to the day since hatching. They were all in, with Mum, late on Sunday night.
There was only one still in the nestbox when I got up at 6.20am. on Monday and the parents (well Daddy actually) was coming in very frequently with food, and often reaching down from the hole as if to encourage the youngster upwards. Baby GT came up to the hole a few times, looking out and flexing its wings, before the final exit.
I noticed as it went it dropped one last poo packet in the nest. Ten minutes later the packet had gone. I hadn’t been watching but one of the parents must have come back to check - that all the babies had left? or to clean up? Amazing.
So that’s it! They’ve gone. We are really thrilled that this camera/nestbox experiment was so successful, the first time we’d ever tried.
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| Come on love! Time to go! |
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| Wing flexion - a strange rhythmical movement that I hadn’t seen before |
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| The crowded nestbox on the day before fledging |
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