Bird Nest Monitoring | Hidden In Plain Sight!!

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]Just there with uh the chiffchaff number 14.

[00:00:05]Uh and it's still incubating a clutch in here.

[00:00:08]And it's the same situation with the blackcap nest, too.

[00:00:11]Been a little while now, but uh it's still incubating here. Great stuff.

[00:00:16]Good to be doing this.

[00:00:18]Excellent day.

[00:00:21]Just in here, blackcap number eight.

[00:00:24]And I knew that the chicks would have gone from here now.

[00:00:27]Uh they were very big the last time I seen them in here, and certainly looks like a successful fledging over there.

[00:00:35]What a little beauty that is.

[00:00:40]I was trying to get up.

[00:00:46]Just across there, nestled across there is a blackcap nest.

[00:00:51]Now, that's 2 m from where I stand now.

[00:00:56]Enter the party. How easy is that? See, now, that's the same one as down from this area.

[00:01:02]I checked on um chiffchaff number 14 and blackcap number eight where the chicks were.

[00:01:11]Very big.

[00:01:12]Um and certainly had had that little blackcap nest in Holly.

[00:01:17]Um and I certainly had the blackcap singing here. It was definitely the di- a completely different pair. Cuz it wasn't too far away from blackcap pair number eight. But there it there's a nest on there.

[00:01:31]And it's safe, I'm thinking.

[00:01:34]It's like suspended in the bramble with the bramble underneath.

[00:01:41]It's cradled there.

[00:01:43]There's no birds. There's no holding any birds on it.

[00:01:47]When I dropped down there, um I'm going to going to uh see how I can get across to that to see if there's anything in there.

[00:02:00]Amazing that.

[00:02:02]So easy to see.

[00:02:05]Right, get out.

[00:02:12]It's up a stretch across the way now.

[00:02:19]Oh, country three.

[00:02:22]What a little beauty that is.

[00:02:25]It's so easily seen.

[00:02:28]See three in, no sitting bird.

[00:02:30]I'm just thinking to myself, standing away 2 m away, just there before, would be a brilliant shot. With a female on the nest, cuz you could get around there quite easily.

[00:02:39]And look and view her on that nest quite readily, but I blacked up number 13, looking for some.

[00:02:48]And what a stunner. Right, get out.

[00:02:51]Well, a little further on, again.

[00:02:54]I'll see what about 2 m in from the path.

[00:02:57]You've got that little bracken ball.

[00:02:59]Now, I'm thinking wren.

[00:03:02]Um Is it an old one?

[00:03:09]I don't think so.

[00:03:11]Right, again, I'll get across to it and have a little look, see what it is.

[00:03:15]Right, we'll get across.

[00:03:18]As you can see in there, not a wren.

[00:03:20]It's a chiffchaff.

[00:03:22]But it's stunning that. It's got six eggs in there.

[00:03:26]I haven't even heard a chiffchaff around. I've got four of them.

[00:03:29]Chiffchaff 14, not too far away.

[00:03:32]This will be chiffchaff number 19.

[00:03:35]No chiffy's on. No birds uh on nests.

[00:03:39]Uh C60 eggs warm.

[00:03:42]Good night.

[00:03:43]Bracken ball.

[00:03:46]Well, dead leaves and bracken would stand out in the greenery of this bramble.

[00:03:56]I on the leaflet there in and around it.

[00:04:03]Just going to Right, get out.

[00:04:12]Rounding this little cavity here, a blue tit has just dropped in here.

[00:04:17]This base of this tree.

[00:04:19]Now, I think it might be still in there cuz it There's no more You see it's little moss here on the outside, but I'm not catching any of that. But I little beast has just dropped in there, blue tit.

[00:04:36]Nice one. Get out.

[00:04:39]Yeah.

[00:04:43]Base of that little tree in there.

[00:04:46]And then she knew it up in the treetops there, feeding. I just stood back and and it dropped.

[00:04:54]It's just dropped down and in there and I was thinking, well, there's nothing in and around there in terms of a hole, anything like that.

[00:05:01]But I That's where it is.

[00:05:04]Uh tree trunk here.

[00:05:06]But anyways, as I stood here, look at that little beauty there.

[00:05:11]Wren.

[00:05:17]No.

[00:05:21]That's a cony height.

[00:05:23]Blue tit.

[00:05:25]It's back in here in the background.

[00:05:28]Barren bird, but I I definitely think there's a blue tit in there on a clutch. So, bank side maybe hold up the tree and I can make it a check in on that wren.

[00:05:39]Right, get out.

[00:05:41]Yeah, switch the camera back on here. Um I've been up and just swung around, had a little check, Quite a deep cup. It's almost a It's beauty.

[00:05:51]It's an absolute beauty.

[00:05:55]Hi.

[00:06:04]Oh, you're getting there really, but take it from me.

[00:06:08]It'll stun her up close. Right, we'll get out.

[00:06:13]Hi, right on cue.

[00:06:15]That was around there.

[00:06:20]In and around. Blue tit in and around.

[00:06:23]Um but I great stuff.

[00:06:27]I would never even come around this tree. I don't know if it's been for that blue tit. Right, get out.

[00:06:38]Well, just on the river side here and I thought I had another um long-tailed tit there when I caught that liken.

[00:06:46]Which was great news. I was just getting ready to move around to a different area to get in.

[00:06:50]Uh but then feathers predation.

[00:06:55]And that one hasn't lasted in there, which is a shame. It's a beauty.

[00:07:00]Hi.

[00:07:02]Right.

[00:07:10]Just around the back of the long-tailed tit that's just been pulled river side. Um that new one I come across which I was going to approach a blackcap came in.

[00:07:20]Um so I sat back on a log.

[00:07:25]Off it went and then it came in back in again singing.

[00:07:29]Uh the male up tops and he has its nest here.

[00:07:34]What a little beauty again. It's hasn't got a great deal of cover across the top. Nothing in it as yet.

[00:07:40]Uh so this will be blackcap number 14.

[00:07:43]It's a little bit out the way in here now.

[00:07:46]Good thing is there's not much to look for. Um dog walkers, etc., etc. Um but I would have said and it's not far this one from that predated uh long-tailed tit that I've just uh come away from.

[00:08:02]But blackcap is active here.

[00:08:05]Very right out.

[00:08:11]All right, looking down there was um blackcap number 12 that I found last time I was in this area.

[00:08:18]Um and it was just in the scantest bit of bramble. Nest off on a tilt but the sticks were very strong and you can see it's the nest still pinned there.

[00:08:29]Brilliant, it's really So, I'm taking it from that what I'm presuming from that that that's a success.

[00:08:35]Um yeah.

[00:08:37]That was blackcap number 12.

[00:08:39]All right. Get out.

[00:08:48]You can see in there lovely new dunnock.

[00:08:51]It's just come out. Let's see four there.

[00:08:56]Little beauty. All right, we'll get up now. Leaning across this bramble.

[00:09:05]Well, you see in there the dunnock which you just come away from, seeing four.

[00:09:13]And we've got another wren combo here.

[00:09:15]Cuz in here and what's that?

[00:09:19]A meter and a half.

[00:09:21]It's a wren.

[00:09:22]And this one it's empty so it's in here.

[00:09:27]Look, it's a bit damp.

[00:09:28]But it's perfect. The wren has just been in here.

[00:09:31]Uh there's no eggs in here.

[00:09:34]Um quite yeah, lovely inside.

[00:09:38]All right.

[00:09:39]There's a random combo there.

[00:09:42]Nice one.

[00:09:45]Another one.

[00:09:51]Shallow.

[00:09:53]And some rain now. It's coming down quite heavy.

[00:09:56]And I wouldn't care. I was just on that last nest that I wanted to look around and check.

[00:10:01]Which was the garden warbler I feel we Well, I'm thinking it's a garden warbler. I looked back at it.

[00:10:08]I had two eggs in it at the time. I was hoping maybe just to sit off and see if they're hearing his bird song.

[00:10:17]Uh but I'm I'm convinced yeah, it's garden warbler on that one.

[00:10:21]This would have been the first one. Come across a beauty yesterday and passed it.

[00:10:27]Uh but we'll get this one and then we'll get off. It is absolutely throwing down now.

[00:10:36]Right, get out.

[00:10:39]Hi.

[00:10:40]I've got a warbler here.

[00:10:42]Um The last time I was here I didn't see the two eggs and it was a loose hairline around. Um but I it's been pretty eaten.

[00:10:54]There's the two eggs.

[00:10:56]Just all mangled in there. Hi.

[00:10:58]I've gotten to that.

[00:11:00]I wondered.

[00:11:02]It was just very untidy.

[00:11:07]Right.

[00:11:09]Get out of here.

[00:11:11]Just here at Dunnic number three. And the last time I was here the chicks were going strong. I think it was just two in here.

[00:11:19]Um there's one unhatched egg left over, but you can see all the droppings around the side.

[00:11:26]I think quite a successful nest is still great.

[00:11:30]Uh nothing hacked.

[00:11:32]Um Brilliant.

[00:11:36]Success on Donac number three, so that's number one out.

[00:11:40]Number two that didn't put a clutch in and this one, number three, they're out of there. Superb. Great.

[00:11:48]We'll do some checks tonight. Uh I've just dipped my head under the chaffinch and she That was chaffinch number two.

[00:11:54]And she's sitting on a clutch of five, so she was tighter than nest. Uh backed off that one and we'll do some run-arounds tonight. We checks really.

[00:12:04]Right, we'll get out.

[00:12:08]Just here below warbler number four and she's still sitting on the clutch.

[00:12:13]Um I think there's six eggs in here.

[00:12:16]Um I think maybe covered in by that little bramble through the gorse.

[00:12:26]But it's good to catch it sooner than that, I think.

[00:12:31]See if I can get to some more.

[00:12:33]I'm going to look at over here.

[00:12:35]Willow warbler number four doing great.

[00:12:42]Just staring down at this little willow warbler here. No sitting bird here.

[00:12:47]Um So I This is one which I had found soggy mess.

[00:12:53]Um And when I came back, thought I'd try to dry it out. Feathers in the front lovely.

[00:13:00]Uh and it's so difficult, so low.

[00:13:03]Oh, actually I think it's picking some eggs up there.

[00:13:09]All right, still a clutch of eggs. No sitting bird.

[00:13:13]It's just the eggs still in there.

[00:13:28]I need to get out.

[00:13:41]This little one here is another little robin nest now.

[00:13:46]You're not going to believe this, but I was sat there 4 m from this.

[00:13:51]And I sat up and look robin had come into view.

[00:13:55]Further little bit further afield in the course, I I could see all the caterpillars and whatnot in its beak.

[00:14:01]Um and it waited and it flitted from branch to branch and I'm thinking, well where does it want to be? Um and I thought, oh, it's just going to fly off over the top of the course, but not wouldn't stay. Um but it came. It actually come down landed on this little bit of bramble above and went down here.

[00:14:20]Couldn't see it. It's close to the bottom of the ground.

[00:14:23]Uh it's nestled in all this leafy there.

[00:14:26]Um there's no bank side, nothing, just bracken over the top.

[00:14:30]And then these are all big chicks in there.

[00:14:34]I can certainly see three beaks there.

[00:14:39]Two beaks I can't see.

[00:14:41]Definitely four beaks. There could be a fifth one in the back, but I've got to get up.

[00:14:45]She'll be back. That is a little beauty.

[00:14:49]But that again, that drive to get in.

[00:14:52]Uh she totally ignored me. I just sat and I couldn't believe it when she landed, dropped down in this leafy there and then came back out with an empty beak.

[00:15:02]I thought it can't be.

[00:15:04]And it is.

[00:15:07]Amazing.

[00:15:08]I absolutely love that little robin's nest there.

[00:15:12]Look at that.

[00:15:14]Like I say no bank side. I'm getting out of here now. This is probably a good idea.

[00:15:22]I hear robin back.

[00:15:25]Full zoom on the camera.

[00:15:28]I wonder if she's going to drop.

[00:15:33]There.

[00:15:39]Down.

[00:15:41]It's not even for me. That's in back out.

[00:15:45]Drive.

[00:15:48]Right, I've wasted tons of time on this.

[00:15:50]That's cracking, isn't it?

[00:15:54]That's marvelous.

[00:15:56]I don't know if she's gone.

[00:16:00]In and out in no time.

[00:16:02]Put the next lot of caterpillars off them. Big chicks in there.

[00:16:10]Right, superb.

[00:16:14]This is my little willow warbler number one.

[00:16:16]And you can see in there the chicks are growing.

[00:16:21]I watched a few fly in.

[00:16:23]Then a little robin's caught my eye.

[00:16:26]Oh, was watching that.

[00:16:28]And I've got my new robin's nest. And I said I was just going to do some quick checks tonight.

[00:16:34]I'll take it out.

[00:16:36]Same trapped again.

[00:16:37]I willow warbler number I willow warbler number one. I lost number two. Three and four are going strong now.

[00:16:47]Great stuff. Watch them in.

[00:16:53]Just very gently and look around at these finches.

[00:16:56]Uh it's one of four in my area. Now I know I've got two out.

[00:17:00]Um well, one definitely out. The other one uh is a little bit further afield and um they they were going strong. They were the first developed.

[00:17:13]Here.

[00:17:15]Three chicks here.

[00:17:17]Right, we'll get out now. Grown strong, we'll be out.

[00:17:20]Two or four more days.

[00:17:23]And they'll be up around the edge of that copper right looking at I've got a chance to look in on chippy number eight.

[00:17:38]Tonight, the last time I peered over the top of here she was in a cop and I backed off but here you can see the chicks.

[00:17:46]Pretty newly hatched then.

[00:17:49]See where we are with them.

[00:17:52]Right, I would get out.

[00:17:54]Chippy number eight doing well.

[00:17:58]Very last look at these little guys.

[00:18:01]This is dunnet number five.

[00:18:04]Three weeks.

[00:18:07]It's two you can see there and probably one on the top.

[00:18:10]There's one tucked down there.

[00:18:13]Yeah, last time.

[00:18:16]How many more days? Two or three?

[00:18:19]Three maybe.

[00:18:24]They're superb.

[00:18:29]Fantastic. Right, we'll get out now.

[00:18:35]Just angling the camera in here.

[00:18:37]This is whitethroat number one. Common whitethroat number one.

[00:18:42]You can see chicks are all hatched.

[00:18:44]They're newly hatched there. This was a C5.

[00:18:47]So, we'll get out here now. No scent bird, anything like that.

[00:18:50]Uh no birds in the area but we'll get out of here.

[00:18:54]Yeah, some freshly hatched chicks in there.

[00:18:57]Right, it's a beauty this. Right, get out cover it.

[00:19:03]See here just in over the top of that common whitethroat number two.

[00:19:08]And this one uh was built beautifully but no clutch went in here. You can see how great the nest is. I mean, all the fine grasses there.

[00:19:18]Doesn't look like there's any animal hair lining in in this one. Similar to that one that was actually building the other day, actually.

[00:19:27]Um number 11.

[00:19:29]Um with them fine grasses.

[00:19:33]No actual hair lining in there, but they were definitely taking the material in on number 11.

[00:19:38]I watched that pair down.

[00:19:40]Uh but this one I came across, it's quite quite easy to see.

[00:19:44]Um but I'm very surprised no clutch has gone in there.

[00:19:58]This is the yellowhammer nest that I had found the other day. Well built ready to go. Then it's overhead.

[00:20:05]Knew it was the yellowhammer nest.

[00:20:07]It's got a C3 in there.

[00:20:10]It's been a little while since I've been in.

[00:20:12]Oh, look at them.

[00:20:15]It's been a little while since I've been in here, so I would imagine this to be the full clutch.

[00:20:22]Superb.

[00:20:24]That's it there. Right, we'll get out now.

[00:20:27]Finish now. Yeah?

[00:20:28]It's quite a bit of uh moss content in this one as well now.

[00:20:34]And the horse.

[00:20:36]And that fine lining.

[00:20:39]Few fine animal hairs in these as well.

[00:20:43]Right, fully fledged.

[00:20:56]Just going around the back of this gorse to see the blackbird again I found the other day.

[00:21:01]Uh hoping really to see if I could see a clutch in there, but as you can see she's hunkered down there.

[00:21:08]Still glued to that nest.

[00:21:12]I don't know what that is in towards the beak there sticking through.

[00:21:17]Then she's coming.

[00:21:18]Right, we're going to get out of here now.

[00:21:21]Beauty.

[00:21:23]Good to see.

[00:21:25]Just a look in here at that a grated box.

[00:21:28]This had a clutch of 11.

[00:21:30]There's a lot of chicks in there.

[00:21:39]Yeah.

[00:21:41]Growing rapidly.

[00:21:48]Maybe you'll be able to see from that how many's hatched out, but we'll lock this down now. It's a grated coming back in.

[00:21:56]Hi.

[00:21:58]Superb. Great. Look at that.