r/oddlysatisfying • u/Christ-The-Slave • 3d ago
Bird building nest. Then babies hatching.
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u/Pineapple__Warrior 3d ago
thats crazy, I mean we saw a whole lifetime there, from building the nest till the little birds were big enough to fly on their own and live their lives. All that in less than 3min. I mean I feel like Im am a part of their lives now lol
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u/CriticalStation595 3d ago
Did one of them die?
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u/Nozarashi78 3d ago
Yes, you can see the censored body in the empty nest at the end
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u/grinchbettahavemoney 3d ago
Sad, I wish I hadnāt read that but itās nature
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u/Nozarashi78 3d ago
7/8 is still an extremely impressive achievement, considering that by the looks of it she raised them alone
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u/hyunrivet 3d ago
I think two of them, there were 9 to start with, at 1:32 you can see 8 live chicks, one of them has died, and to its right, there is another one that isn't looking good, by the end, there are 7 left.
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u/nauticalsandwich 3d ago
This is a really high success rate for birds. Usually there aren't this many that even hatch, let alone make it past the fledgling stage (though the high-walled box definitely helped their chances).
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u/The9th_Jeanie 3d ago
Also, at one point when all the birds jump up to eat, they kind of push the body up. Sadly, once the body is kind of āmosh-pittedā, it gets tossed in a crevice and sat on by all its siblings. Only when the birds finally get up to leave the nest is it no longer under bird butts
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u/purplyderp 3d ago
Looks like it passed between day 50 and 51ā¦ rip little birdie
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u/purplyderp 3d ago
Ah youāre correct.. so there were actually 9 chicks - one must have left a little early on day 50/51
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u/MrC00KI3 3d ago
Crazy that momma tit didn't remove it from the nest. The brothers and sisters chilling on their own dead sibling.
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u/LesserCornholio 3d ago
My parents didn't remove our dead sister either. They said she was a good reminder for us to behave.
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u/abat6294 3d ago
How would she remove it? I'm sure she can't move a dead body.
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u/swizzlesweater 2d ago
The momma bird will pick it up and kind of throw it out of the nest when they notice. It looks like this nest was a bit small for the number of hatchlings she had
Nature is metal
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u/Totallynotacar 3d ago
I think so. Ive see another vid like this one and the same thing happened. Just all of them are so eager to eat and will trample or steal turns from the weaker ones until they just can't make it. I'm only 2 for 2 now on videos like this but thats enough for me to already be horrified that this is the norm...
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u/nj2fl 3d ago
I have a chimney sweep nest above my front door. Found a very fresh very dead baby on the ground one day.
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u/sonaut 3d ago
My eaves get filled with house finch nests in spring. I get maybe 5-8 nests each spring. And each year, once they start hatching, the vast majority of the babies and eggs are eaten by jays. Itās really disturbing and I try to intervene by scaring away the jays, but as a friend once told me ādo you want to get 50-80 nests a year? Because thatās how you get 50-80 nests a year.ā Nature is a balance, and itās not kind.
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u/Comfortable_Many4508 3d ago
if a population is stable then no mater how many offspring one pair have on average only 2 will live to have offspring l
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u/nauticalsandwich 3d ago
I've watched many nesting birds in my time in my bushes and trees over the years, and I've yet to see a single one where every hatchling or nestling makes it to the fledgling stage.
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u/Pinbacker11 3d ago
41 seconds from the end, you can see it dead in the bottom right uncensored.
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u/fakehalo 3d ago
Can kinda see its decline in the 10 seconds before that too, poor little fella.
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u/mwmercury 3d ago
She checked the camera before starting building the nest!
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u/frosty720410 3d ago
She had to make sure it was on and give an intro
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u/jarednards 3d ago
Im about to chew this worm and spit it into my kids mouths dont forget to like and subscribe!
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u/YTSkullboy707 2d ago
She gotta make sure her camera was working, how do you think she got all of the food for those chicks?
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u/YuppieWithAPuppy 3d ago
I didnāt expect my mild terror reaction every time they opened their gaping maws for mama but there you have it.
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u/Logical_Relief9783 3d ago
I was most surprised by the number of chicks she had. I didnāt know small song birds could have such large broods. Was she a single parent? I didnāt notice a mate, to help stay with or feed the chicks. Iām not familiar with this species of bird, so I donāt know if they mate for life. Itās also quite impressive that if she were flying solo as a parent, the majority of her chicks survived.
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u/GregorSamsa67 2d ago
Itās a blue tit. The male blue tit helps feed the young, and will be their main feeder once they have left the nest (whilst the female starts a new nest) until the fledglings can take care of themselves. Blue tits usually mate for life (but their lives are short, typically three years).
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u/MANLYTRAP 3d ago
am I the only one who thinks they looked kinda creepy when they start screaming for food?
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u/mlm161820 2d ago
Only ākind ofā creepy? Man, that was Creepy AF. My nightmares about to level up!
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u/MANLYTRAP 2d ago
amalgamation of beaked creatures attacking a lone bird to add it to the collection kinda vibes
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u/Weare_in_adystopia 3d ago
"A single mom who works two jobs
Who loves her kids and never stops..."
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u/Original-Bear12 2d ago
"With gentle hands and the heart of a fighterrrrrr.... I'MMA survivorrrrrrr"
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u/No_Musician6514 3d ago
1 down, rest survived. Too bad author blurred the corpse, nature doesnt need to be censored or faked.
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u/FishieUwU 3d ago
Kinda weird. Not everyone wants to see a dead baby bird
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u/IronicINFJustices 3d ago
This is why people think "food" comes in plastic and people do not respect that life has to be taken for "food".
Or, people go an pet wild animals, because they never see them actualy rip things to shreds, even though they are "small".
Education is building, and sensorship of education only empowers those who have the authority to censor.
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas 3d ago
We need more people like you telling how it is/should be
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u/IronicINFJustices 2d ago
People are scared, and it's not easy to say "no" to a croud.
Neurodivergence helps.
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u/saltedfish 3d ago
For many years of my life, I thought "food" came in plastic tubs. Then my mom showed me a dead baby bird and all was revealed to me. I know fully understand the circle of life. I have seen the beginning and the end, and I thank her every moment of my life for not censoring the dead baby bird. I will be sure to bombard my children with dead baby birds so they will also appreciate where their food comes from.
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u/FishieUwU 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ya no, still weird when you say it. You sound like someone that feels right at home in gore threads on 4chan. Should I go look at pictures of dead cats so I can appreciate my alive cat more or something?
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u/donau_kinder 3d ago
If you can't handle a dead baby bird in a documentary you're not ready for the real world.
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u/JasonMorgs76 3d ago
Wait until you learn what happens to like 30% of baby pigs.
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u/johndotold 3d ago
We might have lost one piglet per litter. That was 4 decades ago and domestic breeds. Thirty percent sounds about right wild stock.
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u/Shamhammer 3d ago
The mouths... those gaping, yawning mouths. They just get bigger, bigger and bigger. And you peer into them, into the blackness. And then they consume you.
Seriously those chicks were some Peter Jackson King Kong level horror monsters.
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u/HisToxicPenguin 3d ago
Thatās a lot of babies for 1 bird š« š« I donāt think Iāve ever seen one have this many at once š« š« ā ļø
You go mama bird! š¤£ā ļø because thatās a heck of a lot of mouths to feed š
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u/crispyleopardlips 3d ago
Jeez, people have become sooo sensitive that they even blur out a dead baby bird just in case it might offend or frighten someone.
Wtf.
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u/SomeBlueDude12 3d ago
I'm curious at to what stage of development did the bird die? I want to say right out of the gate in that initial feeding frenzy but it's blurred so I wouldn't know
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u/Type_Zer07 3d ago
You can see it uncensored, likely right after it died. It had black feathers but was smaller than the rest. I imagine it may be censored because it had been dead for a while and maybe decomposing at that point. The censor was yellow, but it was black when it died.
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u/EntertainmentLeft882 3d ago
When the kids got a bit older and started bawling out of the nest really got me
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u/Vaultaire 2d ago
This is how I imagine parenthood to be for people too. Make a nice wee cozy home then a bunch of mouths appear demanding food til thereās no space for everyone.
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u/AgentSparkz 2d ago
Honestly this video is hilarious watching the bird be that sped up cuz it looks like it's absolutely fucked on caffeine
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u/Nyingje-Pekar 3d ago
Wow, that is amazing. Hard work to build that nest and a huge clutch of eggs. Many mouths to feed. How many will survive? Keep your cats indoors, cat lovers. Too many of these beautiful birds are killed each day by domestic cats.
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u/AmongstTitans 3d ago
Reposted after not even 12hrs IN THE SAME SUBREDDIT cmon dude
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u/AceDegenerate_ 3d ago
Reddit police here
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u/AmongstTitans 3d ago
Itās karma whoring and generally looked down upon especially when itās this blatant
I wouldnāt be surprised if OP was a bot
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u/Carbon-Base 3d ago
That's one hardworking momma! So cute to watch the lil' birbs grow up and leave the nest, one-by-one.
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u/superawesomeman08 3d ago
two questions:
what kind of bird is that
where does all the poop go
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u/nohiddenmeaning 3d ago
Blue tit.
When they poop, they put their butts into the air and mommy comes to snatch it and carry it out of the nest.
Source: I did this same project once.
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u/CptObviouz90 3d ago
They basicly Produce Poop in a bag. Google it
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u/superawesomeman08 3d ago
actually now that you mention it, i do recall something about a coprophagaous sac or something like that?
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u/erok25828 3d ago
Thatās awesome! Have a bird box in our backyard. 2 years in a row family of starlings have hatched babies in it and they all made it out. Looked in the box after they left and was empty. Was hoping there wasnāt baby bird carcasses in it. We should put camera for Next time.
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u/crusty54 3d ago
Meanwhile the killdeer outside my work just scrapes a little dent in the gravel and lays her eggs in it and then screams at me when I walk by.
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u/Dr-DrillAndFill 3d ago
What bird is that ?
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u/Shazmataz33 3d ago
Cyanistes caeruleus
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u/The9th_Jeanie 3d ago
Yeah, that āyāall are getting too big for this shitā moment shouldāve come a LOT sooner lmao. Grown ass birds yelling at me to feed them, man what
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u/SilverEyedFreak 3d ago
Mama birds work overtime when the baby birds are growing. I was at a job once doing exterior restoration and there was a nest underneath a gutter. All I heard was the baby birds crying and the mama bird constantly fed them like all day. The daddy bird just watched us and never went into the nest. Them mamas must be exhausted.
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u/YTSkullboy707 2d ago
Im gonna sadly guess that the blue at the bottom is a chick that didn't get fed enough, poor guy š
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u/FlatPatience2054 2d ago
They get so excited for their momma!!! Also the fact she uses her feathers for the nest surprised me
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u/Hanahbuddy 3d ago
When mom comes home and all of them are like HUNGRY MOM HUNGRY!