Live picture from the Great Tit nestbox (Webcam) |
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| 2009/10/28 - First overnight stay, very late this year 2009/10/29 - Since today continuous visits by the Great Tit (exeption: 2009/10/30) 2010/02/21 - Today it sits in the right instead of the left corner 2010/03/23 - Since this evening no more overnight stay in the box 2010/03/24 - First nesting material is flown in 2010/04/10 - The bird stays overnight again 2010/04/18 - The first egg! 2010/04/26 - 4 eggs 2010/04/27 - 5 eggs, Great Tit begins to breed 2010/04/28 - 6 eggs 2010/05/09 - the little birds begin to hatch after noon 2010/05/11 - All 6 squabs hatched 2010/05/15 - 5 beaks visible, therefor appears one more egg 2010/05/18 - Yet 4 beaks, one looks quite weak 2010/05/19 - +2°C at night, only 3 young birds survive 2010/05/21 - Two little ones left, still cold at night 2010/05/22 - Great Tit doesn't make it bringing out the next dead one 2010/05/23 - Both parents take ideal care of the last young bird 2010/05/29 - At 1400 its mom welcomes the little bird in the near tree 2010/10/11 - Since today again continuous visits by a Great Tit! 2010/12/08 - The Blue Tit box is also occupied now, by a Great Tit 2010/12/11 - Short circuit by condensate, that's why starting transmission from the Blue Tit box 2011/03/04 - The Great Tit from the Blue Tit box is missing 2011/03/05 - Again transmission from the Great Tit box (short circuit patched) 2011/03/30 - It starts building the nest! 2011/04/12 - The first egg! 2011/04/14 - Two eggs 2011/04/17 - Three eggs 2011/04/19 - Four eggs 2011/04/20 - 5 eggs, beginning to breed 2011/04/21 - 6 eggs 2011/05/04 - Four little birds hatched in the morning 2011/05/05 - 5 young birds are waiting for food, one egg is left 2011/05/23 - In the late afternoon they all leave the nest! 2011/10/15 - Since this evening a Great Tit stays overnight |
 Great Tit 2011 6 eggs hungry |
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| This site uses a Java applet to display the picture on the left.
The refresh rate varies from 5 to 20 seconds depending on time of day (traffic: approx. 14 MB / h).
Date and time of the current picture can be displayed using the context menu
(right mouse key in the picture). Alternatively you can use a Javascript site, but the image might not always be perfect (only  text).There is even a choice working without any Java/Javascript (reloading the picture is not really nice) (only text).
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A short movie shows the last young bird that survived in 2010. On 2010/05/29 it looks out of the nestbox, working up the courage to fly out. In slow motion you can watch the flaps very good. The movie is recorded with the nestbox-cam and a SONY HDR-HC9 HDV camcorder. |
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| Javascript and Flash is required to play the movie! |
Which activities are shown in which month? March to April: nest-building, Great Tit stays overnight in the nestbox. May: if you are lucky, breeding the eggs and fly out of the fledglings. June to September: nestbox is normally empty. October to February: when it's getting noticable colder at night, a Great Tit spent the nights every year. When it dawns the bird "comes home", cleans its feathers and sleeps until sunrise. The adjoining table (visible only with javascript) with the sunset times provides a quite good orientation. If the sky is clear the displayed time matches with the homecoming of the great tit, mostly a bit later. If it's cloudy or even bad weather often much earlier. |
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