Sunday, February 22, 2009

De Mortel: courtship

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Pa and S2 are engaged in courtship more and more. Both are very often at the nestbox. She on the grid, and he in the box ee-chupping with head-bow-low. Watchers at the site at the "spottersplace" report frequent mating. Pa is offering S2 food, which means she has started to fuel up for eggproduction. Considering it is only february 22, could mean the first egg maybe due in 2 weeks time, perhaps even a week sooner than last year.

In a weeks time the livefeed will start. I am very busy at the moment with the final preparations for that. I will be writing a daily Blog on the site of the Dutch "Vogelbescherming-Beleef de Lente" the nest 5 months. I will try to post the english translation of that over here every evening.

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