Post by lupin on May 7, 2015 12:25:42 GMT
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DON'T KNOW WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING THERE, BUT IT IS NOT BEHAVING LIKE IT USUALLY DOES, SORRY:(Mrs Bluetit spent the earlier part of the morning doing a lot of sudden standing up, looking down quizzically at her nestcup and sitting down again. I reckon she felt her babies tapping inside their shells and was wondering what on earth was happening. I believe she is a first time Mum.
When the first one hatched out, she stood and watched it for a few seconds when Dad came into the box stood and looked at his first offspring and tried to hand over a very small grub to Mum to feed it to the babe - Mum didn't want to accept it and kept turning her head away until Dad decided to feed the babe himself. Usually with very new hatchlings Mum takes the food from Dad and insists on doing the feeding herself and won't let Dad do it but as time goes by they both do the hunting and feeding. Mum then ate the eggshell (to replace her calcium).
The next hatchling Mum still didn't want to accept Dad's grub to feed the babe with, but this time Dad insisted and she took the food in her beak and seemed to get the message and she eventually fed the second babe. The next new arrival she was a good girl and accepted the food Dad brought in almost straight away and fed the little one. She will likely eat all the eggshells.
The next one she barely hesitated in accepting Dad's offering for the babe and fed it without hesitation, so it should all go well from now on.
I always get so wrapped up in watching the nesting, so you will not get much sense from me in days to come
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