We have all waited patiently with fingers crossed to see if our pair of buzzards would settle down and raise a family on our webcam nest but after a lot of early activity they seem to gone to somewhere else. So not to worry here at Arne we have always got something else up our sleaves and I am sure a lot of you will remember our kestrel family from last year. They had a brilliant 2011 by succesfully raising four healthy chicks including the smallest one that worried a few people early on.
We have decided to put this nest back online now and you can also come and watch it in the visitor centre. The female is sitting on 5 eggs at the moment and this is the same as last year although one failed to hatch. We are not sure when she laid her eggs as she was already sitting on the 5 when we turned the camera back on a week ago. However we think she is at least 2 weeks earlier than last year and the first chick actually hatched on the 21st May 2011. It is a bit difficult to predict when they will hatch but the female will incubate for about 28. So given this information please feel free to have guesses on dates!
To Watch this webcam online follow the link on our main web page or click here http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/a/arne/webcam.aspx
Don't be confused by the buzzard information still on the page it will be updated in the next couple of days!
One sleepy chick in the box shhh!
Jo T Always on the side of the feathered guy!
Hooray - webcam back, gorgeous birdsong (love that Song Thrush) and a fledgling returned to the box
It's so frustrating have no webcam at LG - I'm getting my sound fix from Arne!
Then there were two with another making a racket outside!!!
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Hi birdsong and Jot - just logged on again to listen to birdsong - and all I get is the sound of torrential rain - snapped this pic of our young trying to ignore it all - early dark tonight
2013 photos & vids here
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Watching my kestrels here this evening - lots of noise and mum teaching baby how to terrorise wood pigeon and rook - with a view to kill I suspect while new 'about to fledge' looks on from nest hole and there may be another one will check tomorrow & let you know - there must have been a great gap in egg-laying possibly due to awful weather conditions
Hi Wendy & Jot - well, I was enjoying the birdsong but now it's just torrential rain by the sound of it. No wonder they've sought the shelter of the box.
Wow, brilliant captures BoL and Wendy, just got in and see 2 asleep with the sound of rain in the background. Wonder how long they will keep roosting in the box as last year the webcam was switched to the Barn Owl chicks once the Kestrel chicks had fledged so no idea how long they stuck around for.
Getting my early morning fix of birdsong from Arne (LG webcam still down) and found a fledgling still sheltering from the incessant rain
And with one eye open
Dunnock, Blackbird and Song Thrush are the main singers with occasional higher pitched sounds which I should be able to identify but have forgotten!
Two damp fledglings squabbling
Hi birdsong - headless soggy baby!! Lovely birds singing merrily outside - much activity in my nest this morning - hanging onto edge wing-flapping, about to leave I think!
Hi peoples - this is what I can see from my double doors - have waited all day for one to settle on telegraph pole but ......would they oblige!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!