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Welcome to the 2024 beaks!

Update: 23th March 2024

Far from being "little or no help" to Mrs. T, Mr. T is clearing out the nest of its rather gruesome debris from last year. We knew that two of last year's chicks didn't fledge, but weren't sure what happened to their bodies. It seems the answer is that they got trampled into the nest itself. Now Mr. T. is doing his best to clear them out. You can see him removing a skull and then a leg in the latest video.

You are more likely to see something on the live feed now, and there is usually lots of action in the highlights.

The visiting beaks

Curated highlights of the beak visits this year. The latest videos are at the top.

25/03/2024: He's done the easy part, removing the skull and a leg. Now it's the rest of the body, and it's an almost Sisyphean task which takes a few days. He does it eventually though, and his dogged beaked determination is an inspiration to us all.
23/03/2024: Mr. T. does some nest cleaning, getting rid of parts of the beaks that didn't make it last year. First he removes a skull and then a leg.
18/03/2024: Mr. T. checks out the focal length of the camera. Lovely blurry close-ups.
18/03/2024: Too much of a modern beak for stereotypical gender roles, Mr. T. engages in some nest preparation.
26/02/2024: Mr. T. comes in to do some tidying and cleaning. In typical male tidying style, he moves a few bits of fluff around, gets rid of a small twig, and leaves the lumps of poo on the floor, untouched.
07/02/2024: How to tell Mr. and Mrs. T apart: Compare the red circled bits on Mr. and Mrs. T. First in the video, Mrs. T has a small "sideburn", and a wide white area between it and her blue cap. Mr. T. (second in the video) has a larger sideburn and hardly any white between the black and blue. Of course, Mr. T is bigger as well, but when there is only one in the box it's difficult to judge their size.
22/01/2024: Another check around from the Missus. Carefully inspecting all the nooks and crannies of the box.
18/01/2024: Mrs. BT pops in, has a look around, and waits ages while Mr. BT flaps around the entrance. He eventually comes in and they both flap out. It probably makes sense to a Blue Tit.
11/01/2024: Mr. B. Tit pops in for a look around too. This was quite early in the morning so the light level was low and so picture quality is gruesome.
07/01/2024: She's back, and checking the walls out this time. She's coming in a couple of times a day at the moment.
06/01/2024: The first recorded visit of a beak this year. A couple of days after turning the camera back on again, Mrs. Blue Tit pops in for a look around.