The Blue Tits lived in a nest box on our garage. Or to be exact, they lived in a nest box poking out of where the garage window used to be. There's already quite a few websites with mini CCTVs or webcams set up in Blue Tit boxes, but not having a webcam or the faintest idea how to install one, I decided it would be much easier to get some nice high-res images with my digital camera. So with that in mind, I set up the nest box with a glass side on the inside of the garage. After a lot of buggering about and waiting, two Blue Tits moved in on 1st April. After about a fortnight of bringing in beakfulls of moss and then taking it out again, the nest looked as though it was still only half-finished by mid April. By the third week though, they had built the nest up to almost half-way to the entrance hole, and the female was roosting in the box every night. During the week or so between the nest being finished and the first egg being laid, there was very little activity around the box, so I wondered if they had given up, but the first egg was laid on 18th, and the clutch of seven eggs was finished on (roughly) the 24th. Note - July 2006. Whilst removing the old nest and taking down the box for the summer, I found an eighth, unhatched egg in the bottom of the nest. Click on the small thumbnails to see the larger images - you can follow their fate over the next three weeks, starting below: Monday May 1st Not much to say, really - a few pics of Mrs Blue Tit incubating and being fed by the male every now and then. Unfortunately I didn't have the inclination to install a webcam, so I haven't got any records of visits other than those I saw in the short space of time whilst taking pictures. Perhaps next year? The male seems to be bringing in a lot of those St. Mark's Flies today; luckily I was there when he made a couple of visits today. I've also uploaded a shot of the eggs - seven in all. Thursday May 4th Still sitting there. She seems to be bringing back pieces of small green leaves, leaving most of them lying around the nestbox - you can see some of them on the white feathers at the back of the box in photo 0041. I've also included a picture of the whole side of the box showing the depth of the nest - happily, Mrs Blue Tit has built her nest high enough to the entrance hole to photograph the nest in horizontal 3:2 format, which means that I don't have to contort myself between a tripod and the garage wall to get a decent shot. Saturday May 6th Still little activity - she's still bringing in those bits of green leaves. The male seems to be staying outside the box when he brings her food now, so not much chance for any images of them both together, although I did manage to get her leaping through the hole (more by luck than judgment!) The eggs ought to hatch in the next day or two. To go to week two, click here