Last night we got quite concerned about the female, and it follows on from something we didn't mention yesterday - her size !

When she came into the box yesterday evening she seemed to struggle a bit, and found it difficult to get through the hole. During nest building she has been flying through it with a full beak of material, but now it seems she has put on weight.

She finally returned to the box at 6.58pm after spending nearly 6 hours away and started pecking at the hole. Every now and then should would attempt to enter and had to abort her efforts because she just couldn't get through the opening.

After nearly four minutes she finally managed to get through, but as the time stamps show on the pictures below, she hung there, almost getting her breath back for 10 seconds before dropping to the floor:

Is this the result of her being slightly larger due to the fact that another egg was forming inside her ?

Twenty minutes later after having spent time working on her nest she decided to leave. Again she tried several times and at one point we thought she might begin to feel trapped inside as she tried to exit but again struggled. She did get there in the end though.

Nearly three quarters of an hour passed and the male had made a couple of visits. Then just as he was making another she knocked him clean of his perch as she arrived with her final delivery of the day. It took a little wiggle, but this time her entry was a lot smoother:

Now life is never predictable, and if you want to get somewhere, you sometimes have to be nice to get what you want ...

At 7.57pm the outside camera caught sight of a rather cheeky looking male with food in his beak, and seconds later and he was inside feeding her:

He left afterwards, but his plan was only half hatched ...

Allowing enough time for his mate to go to sleep, he crept back in 17 minutes later, and didn't receive a peep back from her.

Surprising really, as he made a noise looking out of the window, and then started to peck up the wall:

The male gets his bed back, and the female sleeps here.

This pair are certainly nothing short of entertaining this year !

The night hours seemed to pass without incident, and with two birds in there again, it was difficult to work out how restless the female was.

However she was certainly restless at 5.19am when the male left, and he got just one snap from her as he vacated the box and she laying the cup with splayed tail feathers:

At least the peace and quiet allowed her time to sleep some more and prepare herself for the second egg.

Just like yesterday she started to show signs of movement around 5.40am:

At 5.51am she adopted the position she was going to lay the egg in and by 5.52am clicking sounds could again be heard.

By 5.53am the clicks were much faster as she turned her head to the left . Thirty seconds later and the clicks had finished and she closed her eyes to rest a while:

A few more minutes passed with her resting and then more clicks could be heard - this was going to be a longer labour than yesterday.

At 5.59am she moved upwards in the cup and it was all over ... egg number two had been laid:

Egg number two arrives here, and don't mistake creaks from the box as labour clicks - the wind was up this morning!

She then had 5 minutes rest with her head under her wing:

A quick tour of the box and she was out for the day:

Shortly afterwards two more deliveries arrived, just to add a bit more to what has become a very feathery nest:

On the second delivery she was in quite a quiet mood, and the glass wall allowed some nice views of her as she pondered life, or possibly looked at her own reflection:

Who's looking at who?

6.37am until 10.19am saw seven more arrivals, and each time the material was dropped around the side of the nest cup and she didn't check her eggs once, which was surprising:

The mobile delivery service arrived as well, but breakfast went uneaten:

The pair continued with their day, and every now and then the female would arrive with yet more material.

A rather large meal went unnoticed just before noon, and it looked like he probably landed on top of the outside camera and consumed it himself:

Always the perfect gentleman (?) the male offered a mid-afternoon snack instead, just after she had struggled with another mass of soft stuff:

The female has problems delivering a large consignment, but gets a reward here.

Another small visit from the female at 2.54pm left the box without her presence again until 5.33pm, although the man of the house had been keeping a vigil during the afternoon:

And just before we finished writing this entry, he has been inside twice and started pecking quite heavily at the hole.

Maybe he has noticed that she seems to struggle more towards the end of the day and thinks he can enlarge it a little:

The trouble is, he seems to have disturbed his hair style again:

It's just as well the side camera has been recording her egg laying, as she still hasn't given up any visual clues that there are eggs in there.

She always covers them up after checking they are still OK:

If you happen to see anything that looks like an egg on the webcams, let us know the approximate time and we'll see if we can find a picture.

With three cameras this end, we don't always get to see everything from all angles.

So ... Will he, or won't he stay the night ?