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Livestream: Bluetit nest has six hungry babies

Boing Boing·Ruben Bolling·19 days ago
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The best time to start keeping track of the saga of Lapis and Lazuli building their nest in a garden birdhouse, laying six eggs, incubating them, hatching them, and feeding their tiny, naked babies was two months ago. The second-best time is today. Fionn O'Donoghue set up a camera in the birdhouse (I assume in Ireland?) and has been posting daily updates on Instagram for weeks. But after the eggs hatched, he started a YouTube livestream, and you can peer into this epic story any time, watching mother and father constantly fluttering in with caterpillars and small insects to feed their gape-mouthed youngsters. Here is a good Instagram post summarizing the story up to this point. I am fully invested, having watched this industrious couple build their home and family despite a wren invasion, an attack from a magpie, and a worrying delay in laying eggs.…

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