'PG-13' Edit. First Egg Hatching to Chicks Fledging VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED. BlueTit Nest Cam 2021

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Live Nest Box Camera 2023 - Loughborough, UK

3 жыл бұрын

Things used to make these videos:
In box Camera - Green Feathers wired IP camera
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Nest box - Garden Nature side view box
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Streaming software - OBS
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Editing software - Davinci Resolve 17
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External Camera - Sony A6400 with 18 -105mm F4 lens
Streaming hardware - Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2012 and 2018
This is a re-edited version of a previously posted video from last week.
There have been thousands of comments on the previous version asking what happens to the chicks which have died in the nest. They are not fed to the remaining chicks and no chicks were harmed by predators.
If you are considering showing this to young children please watch it by yourself first. Nature can be harsh.
If you haven't seen the Empty Nest to First Egg video you can find it here:
• From empty nest to fir...
As you'll see, several of the chicks didn't survive to fledging. There was a cold snap in the UK during the nesting period which could have had a bearing on the matter and massively reduced the amount of caterpillars available as food. Rest assured that the bird feeders were (and still are) well stocked. Like minded people with bluetit nest boxes in the UK left comments saying many of their chicks also hadn't survived through to fledging this year either.
The chicks hatched over a four day period, usually this would only be a two day affair. The final chick to hatch on day 4 didn't stand much of a chance compared to its siblings which were already much larger after 2 or 3 days of being fed.
The sharper eyed amongst you might have noticed that there isn't a day 15 or 19 in the video. This was due to a recording failure and a computer meltdown. The camera and computer had been streaming 24/7 for two and a half months and started to fight back!
The parents continue to feed the chicks in and around the garden and the chicks have not returned to the nest box. This is absolutely normal.
The white fluff in the nest is Sheep's wool.
If you would like to see more then there are individual daily highlights available! Please look through this playlist -
• Nest box edited highli...

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@connectplus247 2 жыл бұрын

That bird who got his first look at the world then dived right back under the nest...I feel you man 🤣

@notorioezz 2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment! He'll know soon enough, life and the world can be cruel

@ReadRomans10 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent comment!

@kerulogo1084 2 жыл бұрын

@rockon795 2 жыл бұрын

@@notorioezz The big black bird stalking the nest may do him harm, Little Red Riding Hood all over again

@wavynacho 2 жыл бұрын

Whats the timestamp?

@AzureRoxe 2 жыл бұрын

It will never not be funny when the dad brought this huge caterpillar for the still-baby chicks and there's a slight "hmm, i MIGHT have brought food that's too big for them" moment.

@korebiis 2 жыл бұрын

the dad: the risk i took was calculated but man, am i bad at math

@giselleb1111 2 жыл бұрын

At 12.39?

@treble473 2 жыл бұрын

@@giselleb1111 At 5:36

@starchild7843 2 жыл бұрын

Why are they just dying off like that when they seemed fine a few hours before!?

@shinob9782 Жыл бұрын

@@starchild7843 the ones that died were the ones not getting enough food

@TheBloodLass Жыл бұрын

For those of you wondering about the last death, here's someothing I noticed: at around 17:34 you can see the mother take a very small piece of waste from the littlest chick just after feeding it. It's significantly smaller than the waste they remove from the other chicks. Clearly what happened was the smallest of the last three ended up starving, most likely because the other two happened to be bigger and stronger from the start and therefore continued to be fed more. And as others have said, most likely the body was too large to remove, so they put it as far away from the nest as they could (little blurred box in the bottom right corner).

@Katz_Pajamas 2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised not many are mentioning the "diaper changes" lol. The system they do for pooping and cleaning the poop is hilarious! Right after they get fed a couple of them will turn around, go head first into the nest, put their butt straight up in the air, poop it out and mom or dad grabs the poop from the butt and takes it out of the box! That's insane! So systematic!

@Torqu3d 2 жыл бұрын

Lol truly is and a definite wtf moment when I saw it happen.

@kenzielanning9627 2 жыл бұрын

the first time i saw it i thought it was food they couldn’t eat. i was very wrong

@meh5069 2 жыл бұрын

I saw that and I am completely fascinated!!! I have never given much thought to birds, no I’m going down the rabbit hole!

@AmyInArizona 2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping someone would bring it up!

@REMNANTRising2005 2 жыл бұрын

LOL I know I was like ?? It looks like an egg wow such clean poop lol and mom and dad are on it ;))

@steve3847 3 жыл бұрын

19:29 “BRO DO YOU MIND??”

@graceverigan 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, you've gotta feel bad for mama bird when the crow stuck its' beak in. She was absolutely terrified. The way she like, burrowed down and didn't move.

@zavagefrick6524 2 жыл бұрын

When?

@marcfuchs6938 2 жыл бұрын

@@zavagefrick6524 It starts at 9:30 , first you hear some noise, then she makes herself smaller and smaller until some huge beak comes through the hole like in a horror movie. She must have been really damn frightened, but it's good to know, the "evil" birds don't make it through this little hole.

@JadeEu 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcfuchs6938 predator birds?

@JadeEu 2 жыл бұрын

@@Letthat i love crows! such intelligent birds

@jimjimsauce 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcfuchs6938 the only evil birds in this video were the two babies that made it..

@bamboozledzoinkers5694 2 жыл бұрын

* Crow attacking nest * Chicks: *FOOOOD :0 :O*

@LazieKat 2 жыл бұрын

For those who want the outcome: there were 8 chicks initially but 2 only survived. 4 died at a very young age, and 2 after developing some feathers.

@davidpoa7775 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for taking the time to tell us what happens so we can make an informed decision before watching my decision is I don't really feel like being sad right now so I might watch this later as usually, I don't like seeing dead baby chicks but I still am kinda curious to what happened lol 😂 😂 so thank you! :)

@ricson088 2 жыл бұрын

I did not see the last one who died, where he is

@suzan6254 2 жыл бұрын

@@ricson088 I think the last one was too big to lift our of the nest after it died so they moved it to the far corner. You can see a brown sensor box appear in the right bottom of the screen at some point. I think the body is behind that

@angelaedwards7138 2 жыл бұрын

@@suzan6254 great observation I had to go back to look for the box , I did notice it but didn’t put 2 and 2 together 🤷🏻‍♀️

@joyoverflowing2512 2 жыл бұрын

I’m wondering if it’s normal to have so many hatchlings and most of them dying.. could it be the nest was made too small for these growing chicks so that some get trampled to death by either the mother or the other chicks as they get bigger? 🤔

@ShawnAnston 2 жыл бұрын

first dead removal at 5:00 Crow siege at 09:50 Starling Siege 18:40 First view of the world 20:30 Nope! 20:35 It's not so bad 22:30 where is everyone? 22:45 Curtains & Applause 23:00

@VikingTeddy 2 жыл бұрын

Still missing the one bit I was interested in. How did the last one die? At that point it seemed like all three were strong enough to make it.

@PAOKTSIS_staurpoupoli_fcknwo 2 жыл бұрын

And 7:40 another one

@ShawnAnston 2 жыл бұрын

@@VikingTeddy not enough food possibly.

@BasedRanger 2 жыл бұрын

@@VikingTeddy Likely starved. Many species of bird parents will even preemptively commit infanticide when there are too many hatchlings and not enough resources to go around. Otherwise, the entire clutch could fail to thrive. In lieu of this, it's often just that the largest ones (the most naturally strong, or just the earliest to hatch, sometimes one in the same) survive simply by being quick to thrust their heads up and having their mouths be the most obvious target for food delivery.. they continue to grow faster and get stronger, they remain prominent at mealtime. Survival of the fittest guarantees survival of the species.

@VikingTeddy 2 жыл бұрын

@@BasedRanger That's what I figured. But I was interested in the "process" rather than the how. I just wanted to see it from beginning to end.

@matthewtylergee 2 жыл бұрын

9:57 in case anyone is wondering that was a raven. Ravens a notorious nest thieves. They will even eat the chicks in the process. Probably thought they could muscle in and kick the occupants out.

@jokers7890 Жыл бұрын

I think that is a carrion crows beak, not a raven. It looks too short to be raven's beak, but its hard to tell for sure. It could be a younger raven too.

@jokers7890 Жыл бұрын

Looked it up......U.K. has about 1.4 million Jackdaw crow pairs and 1 million Carrion crow pairs and only about 7,400 pairs of ravens.....so very very likely it was a crow, not a raven.

@daneg 2 жыл бұрын

2 of 8 fledged, and that was with the benefit of a man made, predator proof box. Eesh. The odds are really against these birds.

@hawk257 2 жыл бұрын

With the usage of pesticides (70% insect bio mass loss since 1970) in agriculture and monocultures we don't make it easier for prey hunters to feed the mouths... Imo perspectives of people and buying behavior have to change too.

@purpleXpotion 2 жыл бұрын

@@hawk257 Sure, let’s all start eating bug infested/half rotten food ..and while we’re at it, why not do away with diapers & clean our kid’s butts like these birds do. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Ugh! Environmentalists. lol

@Numira 2 жыл бұрын

@@purpleXpotion your comment makes absolutely no sense. like it has anything to do with what he said and btw. yea people need to learn the fuck to apprecite food. not throw a whole apple away cause it has some dots, or throw a paprika away cause the skin is already a little shrunk or throw a carrot away cause its not looking beautiful or throw milk away cause its 1 day after bbdate.

@mg8642 2 жыл бұрын

Some birds have evolved to hatch extra eggs with some birds intended to die. That way only the strongest survive to breed again. The parents couldn't keep feeding so many mouths.

@grill6411 2 жыл бұрын

@@Numira majority of food wastage and spoilage occurs before they even arrive at the supermarket and it’s not as if people are starving (we are getting fatter) so I’m not sure what drinking spoiled milk accomplishes

@tiffinstingkatssimple9112 3 жыл бұрын

From how mom used her claw to hold the eggshell she was eating to how dad pushed mom aside to feed the chick's to how they both took their deceased chicks out....very real.