Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 16 minutes ago
Welcome to this clip from a livestream from a back garden located in Loughborough, UK. A female Blue Tit has finished building her nest and has laid her first first egg! It's likely that she will lay somewhere between 5 and 12 eggs. The eggs will be laid first thing in the morning before she leaves the nest each day. The male takes no part in building the nest but has been seen looking for the female and as the process moves along he will feed her while she is incubating the eggs and he will also bring food for the chicks as they hatch.
FAQs-
Why is the box on the side of a house and not in a tree?
Unfortunately the tree used in 2021 came down in a storm last year. Yes, there are other trees in the garden but there's another issue. One of the neighbours has an extraordinarily determined cat. Previous viewers may have seen the video where a white paw appears via the entrance hole while the cat sits on the roof of the box. No amount of spikes on the roof, aluminium wrapped around the tree trunk or chicken wire barricade could defeat this particular cat so it was thought better to mount it to the wall of the house. So far so good...
Camera - discontinued Analogue HD by Gardenature.co.uk. Nestbox cameras can also be found at Greenfeathers.co.uk
Nest box - green-feathers.co.uk/collections/bird-boxes/products/handmade-wooden-side-view-bird-box
Streaming software - OBS
FREE to download at obsproject.com/download
Editing software - Davinci Resolve 18
FREE to download at blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Streaming hardware - 2 x Apple iMac 21.5 2017 3.4GHz
- Blackmagic Atem mini
Welcome to this clip from a livestream from a back garden located in Loughborough, UK. A female Blue Tit has finished building her nest and has laid her first first egg! It's likely that she will lay somewhere between 5 and 12 eggs. The eggs will be laid first thing in the morning before she leaves the nest each day. The male takes no part in building the nest but has been seen looking for the female and as the process moves along he will feed her while she is incubating the eggs and he will also bring food for the chicks as they hatch.
FAQs-
Why is the box on the side of a house and not in a tree?
Unfortunately the tree used in 2021 came down in a storm last year. Yes, there are other trees in the garden but there's another issue. One of the neighbours has an extraordinarily determined cat. Previous viewers may have seen the video where a white paw appears via the entrance hole while the cat sits on the roof of the box. No amount of spikes on the roof, aluminium wrapped around the tree trunk or chicken wire barricade could defeat this particular cat so it was thought better to mount it to the wall of the house. So far so good...
Camera - discontinued Analogue HD by Gardenature.co.uk. Nestbox cameras can also be found at Greenfeathers.co.uk
Nest box - green-feathers.co.uk/collections/bird-boxes/products/handmade-wooden-side-view-bird-box
Streaming software - OBS
FREE to download at obsproject.com/download
Editing software - Davinci Resolve 18
FREE to download at blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Streaming hardware - 2 x Apple iMac 21.5 2017 3.4GHz
- Blackmagic Atem mini
