Our Kestrels are now live on the Arne website! The female has been sitting on the eggs for 32 days so the first should hatch any time. She seems particularly restless today and sometimes you can even hear the chicks calling from the eggs. Who will be the first to see a hatched chick? It would be great to see everyones observations on this forum so we can keep updated with all the excitement! To see the webcam follow: http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/a/arne/webcam.aspx
He will need to! I thought it was a little bird? Blue tit?
Chick beginning to call repeatedly. Hungry?
Yes - First feed happening now! Definately a young blue tit. The reason it has taken this long for the first feed is that the chick will have the reminants of the yolk sac inside them when they first hatch which will sustain them for the first couple of hours.
The constant clucking is coming from the female - it is to encourage the chick to feed!
Yum, yum. It's quiet again now!
Not much of the blue tit left!
Another swap-over. Female back again.
Another little switch, the male didn't seem to want to leave did he...?
Female jumped up to chase a fly. Hehe. Missed.
Second chick. Let the sibling rivalry commence!