MARION Reading has watched a great tit lay a batch of eggs in her garden until they hatched and the fledglings flew the nest.

The mum was kept busy feeding her six chicks after six of the seven eggs laid in a flower pot hatched in the garden of her home in Beaumont Grove, Taunton, Dad helped keep watch as well until the youngsters took their first tentative steps on the ground before flying the nest for good.