Eggciting week

Mrs Blue Tit is doing really well.  We now have 5 eggs.  She is laying every morning between 5.30am-6.30am.  She seems to be laying the eggs c10 minutes earlier each morning.  Due to work I was not able to post yesterday so the 4th Egg is here:

She kept egg number 4 very covered so it was difficult to see.

This morning egg number 5 arrived:

Once she moved out of the way the 5 eggs were very easy to see.

Everyone is guessing how many eggs there will be. So far the guess are:

Craig                     16 eggs (I think Mrs Blue Tit will hope that you are wrong)
Karis                     11 eggs (possible)
Suzanne & Jo          9 eggs (highly likely)
Ellie & I                  8 eggs (same as last year)
Malcolm & Lisa      6 eggs (you'll find out tomorrow)

There are occasions when not all the eggs will hatch.  Last year 8 eggs were laid but only 3 eggs hatched.  So once we known the total number of eggs we can start guess how many chicks will hatch.  Mrs Blue Tit will start incubating the eggs the day before the last egg is laid.  So those of you guessing 6 eggs are probably wrong as there was no sign of her incubating the eggs today.

Hedgehogs are still in/out of the garden all night.  The fox activity has quietened down but I did catch this footage Monday  night.  Wasn't sure who was going to win this fight at first:

At the end the fox suddenly remembered that he was a member of the Canid family and therefore should be chasing cats.