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!
Vid not the best quality.................but the embedding technique is first class!!!
2013 photos & vids here
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Can you go back in to the post and edit that link out?
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Alan,love your effort being so helpful,patient and encouraging,absolutely brilliant.
Alan LOL,at least you kept your sense of humour and it made a lot more pages on the thread.W B a very determined person I think and bet they appreciated your help,keep nearly putting she but you never know,fell into the S*** doing that once.
Hub says have you been drinking Sooty?! :-)
Hi Wendy, lovely video of the siblings, you are very lucky that they are still around and so close to you. Went to Arne yesterday afternoon but didn't see any Kestrels at all, adult or young though not there for very long and kept mainly to the cooler shadier areas.
Hi Pudweena,much worse than that after drink or two.
Thankyou for that info doggie - I shall knit you a wig!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For kestrel lovers everywhere!