Day 11 — A day of steady incubation and attentive male visits.

ties# Day N — Continuous overnight incubation; brief nest absence around dawn

2026-05-05 · Tuesday

Through the overnight hours, the female is on the nest continuously. From 00:04 onward, every Tapo and sunroom IR clip shows her tucked in the cup, head down, shifting position only slightly between frames. The pattern holds without a break through 04:47 — roughly five hours of uninterrupted incubation captured across both close cameras.

At 04:48, a sunroom interval clip catches the cup empty, with several eggs visible. It’s a single brief gap; she’s back in the cup by 04:50 and remains for the next two hours of overnight clips, with no further absences logged through 06:42.

She steps off again at 06:52. The Tapo motion clip shows the empty cup with all five eggs clearly visible, confirmed by a sunroom interval clip at 06:53 and another Tapo clip at 06:53:14. By 06:56 she is back on the nest and incubating through the end of the morning’s data.

Notable: the 06:52–06:53 absence is the cleanest five-egg view in days — clutch count holds at 5. Two short off-nest windows in eight hours is consistent with normal early-morning recess behavior. No human activity, no predator signals, no other birds at the cup.

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Day’s metrics.

• Clips: 597
• Sunrise / sunset: 06:08 / 20:02 PT
• On-cup share: 93.7%
• Dad visits: 9
• Feeding clips: 17
• Max eggs visible: 5