New on our website - our first video

Hi Eilbee

I have noted your website and will look at the breeding times of the Bluetits

Thank you for sharing

Regards

Kathy and Dave

Hi Elibee,

I struggled to make the video work and had to move the time slide manually, but I got the pictures in the end. Thank you for this.

As a point of interest, EXACTLY the same thing happened in my nest box 11 days ago. Three days later the female stopped visiting, but the male is still roosting. I suspect the female has had enough of her mate's mess and gone off to find a cleaner box!

Susan H said:

Hi Elibee,

I struggled to make the video work and had to move the time slide manually, but I got the pictures in the end. Thank you for this. 

Sorry, Sparrow - I can't quite understand what you mean about the "time slide"  - but Malcolm has suggested that I ask you this:

What operating system do you use - eg. Windows 98, XP, Vista or 7?

What version of Windows Media Player?

Do you have the Xvid codec installed?

Hi Elibee,

I use Windows XP.

I have just tried it on Windows Media Player - and it works. No problem.

The problem was it isn't my default media player, so I had to open it specially, which is fine.

It doesn't work on Quick Time.

My default video viewer is Dolby ArcSoft. This shows the still frames and when I press "play" nothing happens. When I move the "play" slide manually I can see it.

Unknown said:

Do you have the Xvid codec installed?

No idea!!!!!

EDIT:  It now works on my default video viewer - forget what I said, it was me!!!!!

Elibee, please would you have a quick look at my short video and see what you think? The female no longer keeps it clean.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytswn3kXMsQ

Susan H said:

Hi Elibee,

Elibee, please would you have a quick look at my short video and see what you think? The female no longer keeps it clean.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytswn3kXMsQ 

Sorry for being so long in replying.  We had a similar situation in 2005, when the female cleaned up after the roosting male at first, but stopped after a while and the box became very messy.  At this time two great tits were clearly still house hunting - so with a little help from Malcolm they took possession of the box.  (You can read about it from April 9th onwards on our website). 

I hope your two birds settle down - though I'm wondering if it's a bad sign that the female no longer keeps the box clean.

Hi Elibee,

I have read your illustrated diary from April 2005. It is just like a soap opera! Brilliant. I love the way you managed to deter your rooster so the great tits could take occupation. I may well have to settle for watching the rooster, which is fascinating in itself. Thanks for the reply.

Unknown said:

I was out for some while this morning, and came home to find my husband very keen for me to look at Recent News on our Home Page.

It has a clickable link to  a short video showing the "changeover" when the male bluetit is in the box and the female arrives.        http://www.biggonline.co.uk/

There is now an alternative way to view this - we decided to call it "Brief Encounter"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi35ZxzeDcw

Here they are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3cNecHnm5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmsN-2OhkJ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NziD6xVXUPA