2025 Season

A collection of 59 posts

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Broody Business

Day 34, Marge still nesting and resting she's still spending most of her days on the clutch. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Broody Business:

Day 34, Marge still nesting and resting she's still spending most of her days on the clutch. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Feathered Neighbours

Day 33, and Marge’s got some new pigeon neighbours — you can hear them having a good old natter in the video 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Feather Secured

Day 32, and today Marge picked up yet another feather for her cosy nest — just making sure those eggs stay eggstra toasty. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Ní neart go cur le chéile

Day 31, Today Marge stayed mostly on the nest, focused on incubating. For the first time Homer was seen entering to feed her, stepping up at last. A key role males play while the female broods is helping keep her nourished. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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More multitasking

Day 29, No changes on the nest today—no chicks yet, and Homer’s still missing in action. Marge, as always, is holding it down and doing a great job keeping her eggs safe and warm. Fingers crossed we’ll see some fluffy little faces soon! 0:00 /0:12

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Holding down the fort

It’s day 28, and Marge is still popping out briefly to feed herself, but mostly she’s staying on the nest, keeping her eggs warm. No chicks yet, and Homer’s nowhere to be seen today. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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The wait begins

Day 27, Marge has begun to incubate and spent most of her day on the clutch. No new eggs to report today 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Eight eggs!

Day 26, Marge has spent most of the day nesting on her clutch, which has now grown to eight eggs! She’s also kept up her sneaky tactics, continuing to hide the eggs when she leaves the nest. Such a clever little bird. 0:00 /0:17 1×

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Easter eggs

Day 25, And the hidden eggs have revealed themselves – not three, but seven in total! Marge has been working hard in secret, quietly building up her clutch while we were none the wiser. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Hidden treasure

Day 24, It turns out Marge has been hiding her eggs from us this whole time! When she was disappearing for long periods over the past few days, she was actually laying an egg, hiding it, and then heading off to feed herself. Blue tits don’t start incubating the

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An egg !

Day 23, and our first egg has been laid! Marge spent a long time outside today — from 7am to 7pm. I wonder what she was up to? The egg was left unattended for quite a while, but all is good and well. More eggs are surely on the way! 0:

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Magpies again..

Day 22, and Marge is definitely getting bothered by the cheeky magpies. She tries to leave her nest three times in the video below, and you can hear the beating wings of a magpie outside. Poor Marge — let’s hope they leave her in peace soon 0:00 /0:19

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Is that a magpie ?

Day 21, and Marge left her nest today from 6am to 3pm. On her return, you can hear magpies calling out in this video — and Marge looks bothered. Are they disturbing her? 0:00 /0:14 1×

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New egg area

Day 20, and Marge has collected enough feathers to arrange them into their own dedicated egg space — very fluffy and just right for a clutch of eggs 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Early Out, Early Nap

Day 19, and today Marge took an hour-long nap from 7 to 8am, after being up and out of the nest between 5 and 6am 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Another Vanishing Act

Day 18, and another mysterious disappearance from Marge today — gone from 12 to 7pm. Where could she be going? Off to visit Homer, perhaps? 0:00 /0:11 1×

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Fluffy Finds

Day 17, and today Marge collected 11 large white feathers and added them to her nest. I wonder where she found them 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Adventure from 1pm - 6pm

Day 16, and today Marge spent an unusual amount of time away from her nest. Who knows what she got up to. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Morning Routine

Day 15, and Marge has been sleeping in the nest for the past five days. This is a clip of her morning stretches before she gets to work for a busy day ahead. 0:00 /0:13 1×

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Nest takes shape

Day 14, and the nest shape is really becoming more prominent thanks to Marge’s hard work with the bedding. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Feathering the nest

Day 13, and Marge is collecting soft bedding for her nest. She added a total of 26 new soft, fluffy, and feathery materials to her nest today. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Getting ready to lay

Day 12 and Marge is focusing on getting the nest ready for her eggs. She is spending a lot of time setting up and making the nest cushioned. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Sleeping overnight in nest

Day 11 and Marge continues to bring in feathers and small thin dried grasses. Marge is also sleeping in the nest overnight. 0:00 /0:12 1×

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Soft materials

Day 10 and Marge is now bringing in soft materials. It looks like feathers, maybe dog hair and dried grass? 0:00 /0:12 1×