Summary of Events - 2002

 

Date Box 1 Box 2
18 Jan   Installed box 2
21   Bird seen on box
26 Box 1 installed (late due to tree work)  
3 Feb Bird seen in box  
8 Feb   Two birds seen in box
19 Feb   First bits of moss seen in box
9 March First bits of moss and nesting wriggles  
20 March   Nesting well under way
21   Roosting first observed
25 Bird roosting Bird still regularly roosting
27   Nest cup being created
28 Bird no longer roosting  
1 - 7 April HOLIDAY HOLIDAY
 8 April   Two eggs already in nest on return from holiday
  9 - 10    
11   Egg 3
12   Egg 4
13 Bird 1 roosting regularly again Egg 5
14   Egg 6
15    
16   Egg 7
17   Egg 8
18 Egg 1 "Something odd going on in Box 2"
19 Egg 2 Fight in adjacent oak tree
20 Egg 3  
21 Egg 4 Fresh material brought into nest
22 - 27    
28 Egg 5  
29 Egg 6  
30    
  1 May Egg 7.   Start of incubation  
  2 Egg 8  
  3    
  4    
  5   Egg 9
  6   Egg 10
  7   Egg 11.   Start of incubation
  8 - 12    
13 Three eggs hatch between 17.20 and 19.00 hrs  
14 Three more eggs hatch  
15 Two eggs still visible mid morning  
16 No sign of any eggs - covered by nesting material  
17    
18    
19   Four eggs hatch between 11.00 and 18.30 hrs
20   Two more eggs hatch, one early, one about 19.00 hrs
21    
22 Feathers developing on embryonic wings  
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24    
25 Wing feathers clearly visible.  Chick first seen out of nest cup.  
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27    
28 Preening and wing stretching with occasional wing flapping.
Chicks regularly out of nest cup.
 
29 Boss chick grabbing food as Beauty enters Chicks' eyes start to open
30    
31    
1 June Boss chick flew at 1225.  Others at  1745 and 1955 hrs  
2 The remaining four chicks flew before 0800 hrs  
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7   One chick flew at about 0920
8   The remaining four chicks flew before 0800

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