The best time to start keeping track of the saga of Lapis and Lazuli building their nest in a garden birdhouse, laying six eggs, incubating them, hatching them, and feeding their tiny, naked babies was two months ago. The second-best time is today.

Fionn O'Donoghue set up a camera in the birdhouse (I assume in Ireland?) and has been posting daily updates on Instagram for weeks. But after the eggs hatched, he started a YouTube livestream, and you can peer into this epic story any time, watching mother and father constantly fluttering in with caterpillars and small insects to feed their gape-mouthed youngsters.

Here is a good Instagram post summarizing the story up to this point.

I am fully invested, having watched this industrious couple build their home and family despite a wren invasion, an attack from a magpie, and a worrying delay in laying eggs.

Previously:

Watch these baby birds chirp for food in live nest footage

Watch these brand new baby eaglets and their proud parents on a 24/7 livestream…