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Nest Activity1(gif)         Nest Activity2(gif)         Starling Pest(gif)         Building the nest

Feeding Chicks          Daily activity 1          Daily activity 2           Daily activity 3

Daily activity 4          Daily activity 5          Daily activity 6           Daily activity 7

Events as they happened at the nest in reverse order:

July 9, All chicks fledged with the last one leaving at 9:20am.
An adult came to the nest 5 minutes after the last chick left and looked around and then proceeded to remove droppings left around the nest? The adults are still cleaning up after the chicks even after they left!

July 8, Chicks are 16 days old, they are standing on the nest and testing their wings a lot. It may be the day that they decide to fly but the weather is nasty with a lot of rain storms so...

June 26, chicks are visible from the side of the nest.

June 23, all chicks hatched.

June 22, three chicks have hatched this morning.

June 19, twelfth day of sitting on the nest.

June 7 the female started sitting on four eggs.

June 6, three eggs in the nest.

June  5, two eggs in the nest.

June 4 at 11:34 am first egg in the nest.