Blue Caps Feeding Young:

Here is an update: The chicks are now about 2 weeks old.

 

The blue caps in this video used an old orange cheek nest - the orange cheeks had dismantled the top to use the nesting material somewhere else and the blue caps decided to move in. This nest has the most visible opening of any nest my blue caps have used to date, and thus I was able to get the following video of the blue caps feeding their chicks. There are three chicks in this nest (the cock is very old and losing his fertility) and they are 2-3 days old. The chicks are only visible as occasional blurs of grey fuzz popping up for food from the bottom of the nest.

Note: the male blue cap (second half of the clip) looks odd because a long time ago, his former mate (no longer with us) plucked his ears and the feathers never regrew.

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