Great tit and Robin make a nest each and lay eggs

It’s Easter Sunday so I thought it appropriate to show a different kind of egg! Oak leaves collected in early spring to mulch my garden borders, moss raked from lawn and left in situ, wool from the countryside found hanging on a barbed wire fence and crushed up snail shells all put to good use in my wildlife garden! Both the males watched over their nest building females, both were singing, both collected food for their partners which strengthens their bonding. This carried on after the eggs were laid with the females brooding them. Sometimes the males would perch nearby with a prey item, call his partner and she would dash out, flutter her wings at him, he would ‘feed’ her with it.  She would stretch her wings and forage for herself, returning to the nest a short time later. Sometimes the male would go to the bird feeder and help himself from it, fly to her and feed her whilst she was on a branch, even though she is quite capable of feeding herself.

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