I'm sorry that I cannot answer this, but there have been quite a few threads of this nature over the past few days. Is there a countrywide issue here? Of course it might just be that more people are recording nestbox activity and therefore we hear about more of these situations. Whereabouts are you?
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
I'm in a rural village in mid Norfolk.
It seems odd because I understand that baby chicks do die, but they were dying before the male disappeared, and then they would be progressing well, and then again another one would suddenly die. What about young inexperienced parents, could that be a reason?
All of your comments are very interesting and I can imagine there really could be infinite reasons why this clutch failed. I am sure for as many that fail, many thrive.
While on a walk a week or so ago I came across a low nesting spot in a knuckle of a tree where a tit nest was full of babies at a similar stage of development to the ones in my own. When I visited the site yesterday it was empty, so I hope they fledged but presume they may have been victims of predation. Nature's way.
all 7 cold,tits where alive yesterday today all dead ?
This is an old thread, so you may not get many replies. I'm assuming you mean blue or great tits? There's a more recent and active thread here community.rspb.org.uk/.../9-baby-blue-tits-sadly-all-died-overnight-9-may-2024