Mr Wildlife
New member
Hi everyone,i have been reading this forum for quite a while now and find it fascinating.
I have many cameras fixed around my garden and watch foxes , hedgehogs , the occasional badger and mainly birds.
One of my nest boxes recently saw 12 bluetit eggs laid and 10 hatched.
Both parents fed regularly and last night the surviving 9 looked ready to go - i believe 1 actually did but it was getting hard to count due to all the activity and their size!
I have joined today as when going to view the brood to see if they had gone - i was shocked to see them all laying in the nest dead!
There are no signs on the outer of the box to suggest predator entry and indeed , all the bodies are still inside?
It looks like from the cameras that they have each been attacked - possibly pecked to death but i cannot be sure?
Any suggestions as to what may have happened would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
I have many cameras fixed around my garden and watch foxes , hedgehogs , the occasional badger and mainly birds.
One of my nest boxes recently saw 12 bluetit eggs laid and 10 hatched.
Both parents fed regularly and last night the surviving 9 looked ready to go - i believe 1 actually did but it was getting hard to count due to all the activity and their size!
I have joined today as when going to view the brood to see if they had gone - i was shocked to see them all laying in the nest dead!
There are no signs on the outer of the box to suggest predator entry and indeed , all the bodies are still inside?
It looks like from the cameras that they have each been attacked - possibly pecked to death but i cannot be sure?
Any suggestions as to what may have happened would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
