22nd May 2021 - Yet more trauma and a Cat attack - Blue tit nest box live camera highlights
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External Camera - Sony A6400 with 18 -105mm F4 lens
Streaming hardware - Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2012 and 2018
Within the first 10 seconds of this video you will see a cat put a paw into the entrance hole of the nest. This week we've had magpies, woodpeckers, starlings and now cats try and get into the nest. When will it end?.
Fortunately the cat failed and with assistance from it's owner we've put up a chicken wire 'umbrella' below the nest to stop any more feline adventures. What's next? Locusts?
Our fears from yesterday were confirmed at 4.59am when our female removed another expired chick from the nest. This leaves us with three surviving chicks. If we didn't have bad luck we wouldn't have any luck at all. Did the fact that the chicks hatching was spread out over almost 4 days have something to do with the relatively low survival rate or has it been the last week's atrocious weather? People smarter than I might have answers to that.
The remaining chicks seems strong, alert and full of energy. The parents have been feeding all three throughout the day and into the evening at an impressive rate. Let's hope that all of them make it through their last week in the nest and here's no further unwanted drama.
More tomorrow...
Just shows you how vulnerable they actually are if they were in an open nest
Cats are african species, that´s why african nests are closed as an igloo...as in Australia and New Zealand cats must be erradicated from Europe and England...also Americas...
Also shows how important it is for that opening to be rather small! We saw a cat paw try to come in and also two different large birds try to fit their head through and fail.
@@reoire843 bsds, cats are an introduced species. Is because cats that in Africa bird nests are closed...with a tiny and even long entrance.
@@TheFireControl Oh cool, that is very interesting! I did not know that
these guys were introducing predators for yt views probably
Does anybody else watch these and start getting anxiety when mama bird tends to feed one chick more than the others? No? Just me? Ok.
I could feel my muscles tensing up.
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Why though? They’ll all be fed, it’s impossible to give all of them food at once.
YES! I keep thinking, “oh she’s missed that one” 😢
My whole body tents up when I see danger come for the birdies!
I’m so invested in these birds
RIGHT??
Like fr so true lol
It's amazing we have any birds at all considering all the dangers they have to deal with. What brave little creatures to live like that!
so true. Sadly humans are the biggest danger to wildlife 😔
@@Matobit also true
Also very malicious as they try and shit on you everywhere you walk
These creatures are million years of evolution.
Again an “attack” thwarted by hole diameter.
The feeding is like a weird version of Whack-A-Mole
LOL! 😂😂😂😂😂
More like whack a mole is a weird version of bird feeding nesting babies. They’ve been doing it for what? Millions of years? Whack a mole, 30?
@@wddub9075 Potato potato
@@sean---the-other-one So true, Sean Carroll.
I saw something that I never knew. The chick bent its head down to defecate and the adult plucked the stool as it was coming out and took it outside. I never knew birds did this.
Often the parents will just eat the stool, but I like the hygiene of this particular bird. Watching birds eat their young's poop is enough to make me gag
It's like a diaper lol nature is amazing
So where did you think all the poo goes before? 😂🤣
They remove it and eat it for two reasons, firstly the chick is too young to fully digest the food so the bird is getting nutrients from the poop; secondly is not to attract predators, poop smells and it will draw the attention of anything that smells it.
Had a mama bird build a nest inside my grapevine basket wreath on my front door one yr. Didn't realize it until I saw the eggs. It was the neatest ever! Have no idea what the birds were, but this mama didn't clean up after the babies defecated. Unfortunately, it left an awful mess on my front door & was very difficult to clean. There were all sorts of bugs & stuff in the nest & wreath too. Now I'm a lot more careful abt the type of wreaths I make! Wouldn't have minded so much, but it's definitely a safety hazard when the grandkids are coming in & out the front door!
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You saved me so much time man. Lol
@@fl090exo9 Ten seconds?
*THE PAW OF TERROR*
@@unununununun7012 sarcasm
Here comes Sylvester
Mom made such a beautiful house for her babies she's such a workaholic.,🐦
Thank you for caring about them! Greetings from rainy Germany
Very wet here too!
Danke!
And from Switzerland!
South India 🇮🇳 here I'm from
It's like they're under constant siege in there!
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Some tiny birds similar to tits nested in my rear garden tree, two years back to back, wonderful to watch and a privilege, but boy oh boy, magpies, crows, cats all getting or trying to get into the cover of this particular tree. When i see nesting i allow the dogs to chase off big birds and any other predators , they have learnt pigeon = good, crow / magpie / fox / cat = bad. I know i shouldn't interfere with nature but all my neighbours are cutting down trees or having lots of branches removed during nesting season, so i like to give them somewhere as safe as i can make it.
thats so nice of you!
I hate when people in my neighborhood cut down trees unnecessarily
The parents take out the chicks’ mess after they feed them their bugs.
Cata frumusețe, rabdare, munca, și grija fata de micuti....!
They moved like us when we were young and our parents weren't home and we came home from school and they would say if you hear any strange noise don't come out
I felt sure I'd counted seven open mouths at one time !! They work so hard . It's wonderful to see your video set-up. I've just watched blackbirds raise four, in my lean-to; after losing four out of five of their first brood. They lost one to a pigeon, two to jackdaws and one I'm not sure about - but it was a very stressful and upsetting few days !!
Piegon? I did not know they would attack other little birds
@@lilybsrose In this instance, the pigeon had previously made a poor attempt at building a "nest", just a few loose twigs, very close (about 12") from the spot the blackbirds later built their nest - I suspect this is what drew the pigeon back, at the time the young had been hatched about a week. The nesting place was on some shelving in a lean-to, so inside rather than outside, and quite awkward to access and I guess the pigeon felt it was safely HIS. (There was never a mate for this pigeon, and never a better nest, he's still in garden every day). I agree, the pigeons here are usually peaceable towards other bird species. It gets quite stressful this time of year, when one can't help but be aware of at least some of what's going on in the lives of our garden birds !!
Beautiful birds 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
This video makes me think that the roles of mom and dad are very important. It is unbelievable. There is a lot to learn from birds.
this nest needs a predator guard, it's a another wood piece mounted over the hole extending the depth more so a predator can't get that far in...all my nest boxes have a predator guard and i don't have a problem, they can't in far enough due to this guard...
Is it an extension on the outside of the entrance?
@@scott2836 it would probably work from either side
@@scott2836 yes, it's an additional piece of wood, with a hole the same diameter (or a little larger actually, it will still do the job), it mounts over the original hole and this piece is an 3/4 - 1 inch thick/deep or so. (imagine the neck/head of the predator bird that is able to get that part of him inside, this extra piece helps take his ability away) Also, bird houses that are rectangle, with a hole in the middle is helpful because most birds want to build in a corner, so if they build to the far left or far right of a rectangle box, then they are far enough away from a predator bird who can only get in as far as his shoulders.. and even less if the guard is outside. Also, being a rectangle box it gives the soon to be fledglings ample room for wing flapping. having a rectangle gives far left and far right space for hiding. It would also be more difficult for a cat.
Get a life
@@Aisanthiem jakkazzz!
It's like a horror movie with cats, magpies, woodpeckers..........Oh my...that poor family...
Honestly, I gasp every time there is a noise. Worse than any horror movie, thinking those guys are going to fall prey to a cat at any moment. 🤢
We had some starlings or wagtails if i remember correctly nested in a beam in one of our sheds, thankfully think all the chicks made it as i always seen 4 and it was cool to see them beginning to fly etc they got huge idk how they where all in that tiny nest lol
Pretty normal that only 1 of these chicks makes it past year 1. Nature is brutal. Only the strongest survive.
Very true. Many animals have several babies at time to increase the chances of survival for their kind. In the end, most succumb to the cruelty of nature and only a few make it to adulthood
love it
I was wondering about the feeding as well. Seems like there was quite a delay between the first two chicks hatching and the rest. For sure they had a head start in getting the food and I could tell some of the smaller ones were not as active in getting food. It’s an interesting question for thought. Life is precious and perilous.
Survival of the fittest I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
0:08 Is the cat attack
thanks because I missed it
@@electricdreams9446 yw!
@@electricdreams9446 well i missed 2 seconds-
@@Jeep_Stuff 😂
@Emilia Strand yep!
Just imagine a momma bird going to feed its chicks but gets caught by a cat. Honestly, I feel bad for the chicks, as they will eventually starve. And the crazy part is this probably happens all the time 😢
It does :( it’s really important to keep cats inside. It’s better for their health and the ecosystem.
@@brittneyyyann Its natural for cats to hunt.. Its unnatural to keep them locked up all day
@@liquidxlegend4572Appeal to nature is a logical fallacy. It’s better for the cats and the environment.
@@liquidxlegend4572 One day if/when your outdoor cat gets hit by a car, only blame yourself.
@@liquidxlegend4572 „natural“ went out of the window a long time ago when we a) started keeping cats as pets and b) do that in the numbers we do. There is no natural environment where you have as many predators in a given area as the typical suburbs teeming with cats. So, might as well give them a good life without letting them roam freely, even if it is a bit „unnatural“.
I've discovered so much through these videos of yours! Like how they keep it clean.... Pooping cotton balls always helps, but where did she drop them off? Lol. Same with one of the dead younglings.
The parent eats them. Vox has a video explaining this, basically the baby bird regurgitates a sack full of waste which the parent usually ingests or drops away from the nest
I wonder if these were the same three that showed to be dominant early on?
I’ve been watching a tit nest live feed from Germany in addition to this one, and they also have had a lot of chicks die. They’re a little farther along than these birds but most of the deaths were just in the past few days.
What happened? Cats attack?
@@Claudia-bo5vf COVID
@@Claudia-bo5vf CORVID no actually they suspect from feeding strange white stuff
@MrJavaman5 Was it Gabi&Jack's live feed?
The cat was on top of the box. It was reaching down a paw from above. It would have been able to hear and smell the birds. Scary!
*Fight is life and life is fight. It will never end, Dude!*
how does a cat get up there?
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I saw a cat that was trying to get to a magpie’s nest, the magpie parents absolutely destroyed the cat when it came too close.
in what way?? lol
@@ArentTjao Magpies pairs are known to grab cats to throw them off great heights and feed them their youngs its innards. It happened quite often around my house until people started locking their cats in.
Lol how old are you? Or are you just playing plain stupid?
A pair of pica pica can not airlift a cat. Not even 4. Our cat attacked once a larus marinus and that is a formidable size, it had no chanse of airlifting itself during the attack and I had to rescue it. The only thing you will see is that pica pica's sometimes like to "tease" cats and usually they outsmart them but not always, and if they fail it usually ends with the death of the bird
@@MrMerithra Not sure if you're being ironic or not tbh.
You ought to put some flexible prickly things inside the doorway. The birds wouldn’t mind and it would irritate the cats. It might deter magpies but they are awfully clever.
Seems like a good idea, at least the predators still can't get in, the hole is too small.
Both cute and terrifying
how they find those big ole juicy caterpillars tho
Called it cute then realized what it was there to do 💔
Ay we all gotta eat some how.
Pp
@@TheCh0sen0neisawesom Not so, kitties are domesticated, they don't "gotta eat" in desperation.
@@markuse3472 I didn't say that. Do you wait until you're starving to eat? Also it is factually instinct that causes the. To hunt. And they don't have morales or ethics like u or me.
@@TheCh0sen0neisawesom But their owners do, who should be keeping them indoors.
I just realise looney toons Silvester and tweety🤣🤣..but such a harsh life these little birds have to endure ...
What's the white thing the parents take out sometimes from the nest? Does anyone know? Thank you
Poop, she was pulling it off the baby
where was the cat?
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@@tee8839 I had to paws it ! 👍
@@fifthof1795 yeah it easy to miss
Траву зелёную натаскали~влажность поддерживать? Как все продумано, я в восхищении! Спасибо!
❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
The cat 🤣🤣🤣🤣
A cat can reach the box? Wow.
The box is 3m off the ground, attached to a tree. We ended up building an 'umbrella' around the trunk with chicken wire and trimming of some branches to stop the cat from getting to it. As for being staged...
@@nestboxcam-loughborough Good job :-)
Hola, cuando vi el vídeo anterior me preocupe un poco, pensando en que iba a pasar con el pajarito, que no fuera a perder el trabajo o que le pasará algo malo, ahora estoy tranquilo. Saludos desde Israel
i don't understand how the bird makes the nest so nice and neat. How does it know to get some nice white soft stuff to go around where the baby birds stay?
It is down and bird feathers.
I watched another KZhead video showing birds assaulting foxes and plucking their fur off
@@vickyvey1657 When I was at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo I watch a bold crow repeatedly plucking hairs from the rump of a capybara.
I just love when they want to poop they just like "here mom take my poop"
Ok I must be trippin because I only saw a brief moment of the cat so who did it attack??
Cats attack because they just like to hunt. Keep your cats inside
@@davidv5584 I believe she said who did it attack, not why.
@@davidv5584 My cat does it just for fun. I keep a close eye on her but had to rescue a gecko recently. Last year It was a bird. She plays with them.
@@davidv5584 I have a catio and one of my cats has nabbed two birds so far! We rescue the bird but dang of all the places they choose to perch!
1:14 Can someone please explain what is happening there?
Removing poop
@@cinsia 🤮
@@littlefifths7760 Physiological needs 🤷🏼♀️💩
I'm surprised that cat would go to all the trouble of climbing that tree etc in an effort to get at them...
Cats sadly are hyper carnivores. They hunt for fun.
Also I have cats. None of mine go outside for that reason though. They will kill anything they can.
@@courtnayhayhayyy Every carnivore kills for fun
@@nikkoshay5403 no, sadly humans kill for fun... Animals hunt only to survive
@@lucabrancaleoni2619 eh you are wrong bro, some animals kills for fun
do the parents understand whether or not they're feeding all of their kids? like do they know if one hasn't been given food yet?
Probably not, i think they just feed the healthiest ones (the largest body and longest neck maybe) to save time and energy, or because they dont care at all.
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Dang these babies hungry!!!
They so cute when they poke their little head out
Right, after the male/female argument from video 1 - the female has a nice, neat cap & we see her 2nd. The poor male looks decidedly rough, with a scraggy & oddly-coloured cap, black lines & white patches. The female selects the box & builds the nest, with little (or no) help from the male.
Where are the cats , the attacks??? I didn't see any. What did I miss?
There's a claw at the beginning of the video, after around 9 seconds
@@RuHa4 thank u! Missed that completely 🤦🏻♀️
Imagine life in a nest not located in a box with walls!
they'd all be dead about ten times over
I didn't see any cat, where was it time wise?
OK, right at the start!
Where was the cat attack?
i missed the cat?
I didn't see a cat come attack the nest? What time was that?
Like right at the beginning
0:10 Just the paw of it
@@quietsong2583 It was the cat's paw. You could see its claw.
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT K
Basically click bait
I’ve just discovered that baby birds look like a something out of a damn horror movie. It’s the mouth opening part for me. **shivergross
I’m really hung up on these little guys.😘
It looks like they’re only feeding the one chick
I keep seeing things the adult takes from the babies. What is that? Poop?
6:12 yes. As someone says, poop. So it doesn’t smell n attract predators.
Trinston was here.. .
Anyone else notice there's only one parent feeding this time?
It's both parents but just one at a time. 3 minutes in it is dad. About a minute later it's the mom.
the 3rd or foutht returned frm corner/
Per salvarli da picchi , gazze e gatti è da un po che costruisco e posiziono solo cassette anti predazione.
Anyone else annoyed at that middle one constantly taking all the food?
That's why it's called survival of the fittest!!
😂😂😂
Ghosh, 3rd attack...its a cat-trick
(sound of crowd groaning) haha
I thought I saw a putty 🐈
Birds are cute but my inachi io catterpilars are curtter.
Where is the cat attack, folks? Did I miss something here?
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Where is the dead chick? 0:...?
It got removed in the last video. Rewatch the last 10 seconds of it.
Looks like Drake 400k bed, from the bottom and up
Has anyone else given them a family name. If not I would like you to meet the Jones family 🤗
Soo.. Where tf is the cat attack🤔🤔
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Attack On Cat
Cat attack my arse!
I taught I taw a puddy tat!!
小鸟们太不容易了
入り口を少し小さくしても、コガラは出入り可能です。
You could provide a video from outside cam with this cat attack.
Hold up. The last video stated that the 'next video' shows a baby bird being removed from the nest. Did I miss something here or was that intended as more clickbait BS?
You missed something. It does not state 'next video'. It states 'next is footage of a chick being removed from the nest - please don't watch if you think this might upset you'. These words fade out and then the footage showing the chick being removed is shown. Just leave the video playing... There isn't any clickbait going on.
@@nestboxcam-loughborough Ok my bad. I thought it was in the NEXT VIDEO. I got you now. Was my misunderstanding. Sorry.
I was here looking for that footage as well, as soon as I saw the text and assumed it ended and I was eager to look for the next one lol
if they eat their babies turds, why not just feed it back to em
Sometimes free roaming cats get into poison meant for rodents, and sometimes get into lethal traps meant for varmints. Most of the ones around here end up as a maggot covered furry pancake in the middle of the busy street
That's terribly sad, and it's not funny
Never said it was Just true
Why would you say something like that. Wtf.
Bb gun for intruders 😉
Just a shame to think that those little ones will probably be eaten within 1 day of leaving the nest by some domestic cat who's owner don't give a fuck that his/her 'cute fluffy kitty' is a walking murder machine that helps lead many important birdspecies to its distinction. Cats are a serious hazard to the fauna and the ecosystem :( Please if you read this,and own a cat...keep it as far away from birds,butterflies and bees as possible to help save the already crumbling ecosystem,thank you. People that own a cat...also need to own responsibility. I have 2 cats myself,they play in the garden everyday,BUT only with my supervision,and I will not even go to the toilet for 1 minute without calling them inside first,because there are many birds and insects that visit my garden,so even just 1 minute I wont let them unsupervised..they are fast and brutal,no 'cute fluffballs' at all when you know how many birds and butterflies they kill each year :(
Where's the cat
When cat is outdoors, have a leach on it and keep an eye on it.
@just sayin does that work?
A leech they suck blood I think you might mean a leash but I totally agree with you!
Cats need to be free. Otherwise they get sad
@@Karen-pl8kd the happiness of domestic cats is not as important as the survival of threatened wild species like songbirds. Cats kill over 2 BILLION birds a year in the US alone. They belong inside or on a leash.
@@Karen-pl8kd Or they could die, or get hurt. My cat is quite happy even though she has a very long leash, so I can control how far she can go and in certain occasions save some small animal from her. Grabbed one of the resident chipmuks, who had no idea she was not a friend, like my previous cat that used to sit in the porch with them. I was able to save it and she got upset, as in avoided me for a few hours. More cats die thanks to people like you.
At 14:22:55 the equivalent of your baby biting you while breast feeding. That tiny chick had a hold of mamas beak!!!
Cats are non native to everywhere. Theyre not a replacement for the unique bird species theyre involved in depreciating the numbers of. A feral dog you can notice and pin down, take into custody, put down, adopt out, keep in foster care. A feral or free roaming cat isnt noticed and cant be easily collected. Theyre impact isnt seen as they commit homicide while humans' backs are turned. There should be a licence for cat ownership. There should be a licence for un-neuter cat ownership. There should be a licence for pet ownership full stop.
A bit extreme, your view at things! There should be so many other things solved on this earth, even more important than dogs and cats! The only thing I agree upon is that pets (cats and dogs) should be neutered!! Full stop, or period!! You must be German, Swiss or Austrian according to your name and view of things......
You are right. I would go a little bit further and would say, that all cats need to be shot or put down, that are roaming freely around. They do a lot of harm to the ecosystem. In Australia it´s already allowed to kill them, because they´re damaging the wildlife.
@@beatricecallan Well Beatrice, I'm Scottish and I totally agree with Walter. I have a friend (she is a cat lover and owner ), who lives in Northern Italy and there, while cats are seen as part of the rural scene (in order to keep down the large rat and mouse populations), such owners are encouraged to have their cats neutered, so that they in their turn, do not become pests to the local, rural environment. It's all about balance at the end of the day - and you are quite right to say that there are far, far more important matters to deal with than this sort of issue, but if you can deal with that too, even if it is just a minor matter, why not do so?
There should be a license to shoot free roaming cats...
Seen a video where an Aussie says, the difference between a pet cat and a feral cat are your walls. All outside cats should be seen as pests. Audubon in UK interviewed people who let their cats out, and the owners pretty much didn't care. If their cat picked up a machine gun and shot people, I wonder if they would care. Do they have no regard for any life? Or no regard for only other animal life? Can't understand them, you would think they would have some regard for animal life since they have an animal, then again, if they really had regard for their cat, they wouldn't let it out to where others hate it, and cars, and dogs. Stupid people shouldn't have cats or be allowed to destroy the ecosystem. Cats have killed 63 species to extinction, so no, I am not overreacting. Bring awareness, talk to your local people, contact your reps. I too am learning how to help my local wildlife.
I've had several feral cat attacks on our birds. Got a low powered spring loaded .22 air rifle which leaves a nice red swell wound on the cats buttocks. They don't return for a week after one ahot.
Cats being allowed to roam free drive me insane. They are not a natural predator and kill billions of songbirds. I wouldn’t dream of letting my dog roam, cats shouldn’t either. Poor birds have enough struggles!
This is nature lol. Don’t get too attached.
@@jazzwarren6941 it's not "nature". House cats are an invasive species all over the world, they hunt for fun, not for food. How is that natural
@@ekaluraw4376 Yeah, I don’t know what that person means. I even get information from nature and animal groups begging people not to let cats roam. People think it’s funny until it affects them. Years ago I was at the vet with my dog. This woman was saying how sick her family had been because their cat brought in animals infected with parasites. The vet tech went off on her as to how it was their own fault.
Kitty kat : I smell some fat.
Keep your cats inside
The poor bird family is experimented. Naturally made nest by them hope saved the little ones. Birds next thought of untrust human.
What? Lol
I'm so confused
All the trauma this family is experiencing is just because their home is in the wrong place. The other families are fine, but this one has everything wrong. Poor birds ... and the person who did this to them should reconsider placing a birdhouse in advance.
Yet more trauma and a Cat attack? where is the fcking CAT.. no CAT hear
0:10 just paws
Hear? 👂
@@ilikeyoutube836 here