After the wonderful nesting of 10 Japanese Tit chicks, a titmice, probably a different individual, started to build a nest right away.

But they didn't make it in time, or maybe they didn't have any nesting material at all, and suddenly laid an egg...
The sound of an egg being laid in an empty birdbox may not be something you hear very often...

This is the second video of 41 days from nesting to leaving the nest (I recorded in 1080p this time, so I have about 1.5 TB of data...), which I wanted to make it 30 minutes, but it was impossible. I know it's getting long, but I hope you'll enjoy it to the end.

[Second Parenting Overview]
0:00 June 19 Day 1: The Japanese Tit has decided to move into the birdbox
0:43 June 20 Day 2: The first egg laying
1:20 June 20 Day 2: Start building a nest
5:52 June 25 Day 7: 2nd egg laying
10:54 July 1, Day 13: 8 egglaying finished and incubation started
11:34 July 11 Day 23: 1st egg hatched
18:18 July 14 Day 26 / 4 days after hatching: 10 eggs hatched
20:20 July 16 Day 28 / 6 days after hatching: A Eurasian Wren visits the bird box
22:30 July 20 Day 32 / 10 days after hatching: Mother bird stops sleeping with her chicks
39:01 July 29 Day 41 /19 days after hatching: They left the nest in the morning.
42:51 [Bonus footage] The birdhouse after leaving the nest

The Japanese tit usually lays one egg a day, but this time, the second egg was laid five days after the first, and then one a day after that, which was an irregular spawn. The timing of hatching was also off, and there was a 70hour time lag between the first and last eggs. the first one left the nest in 17 days, but the second one left in 19 days, so it seems that this time the decision was made to make the first born children wait for two days and let them all leave the nest together. However, as you can see at the end of the video, only one bird left the nest a little late, so it may have gotten separated from its parents...I hope it is safe.

That's it for the nesting box videos we were able to collect in 2020. We plan to set up the birdhouse again next year, improving the picture and sound quality even better.

*Click here to see the first brilliant parenting session.
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