With this lovely video, I will say farewell to 2014 and welcome to 2015. Also best wishes for a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous year for all our Forum and Gabfest friends as well as all our feathered friends, especially EJ and Odin and their 2015 family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtajxo8d7js
from Shetland Wildlife Facebook
Good afternoon all. TeeJay lovely photo of the Jay! We have seen a few flying over the garden and in the trees in the field but not in the garden. Despite the fact that there are peanuts provided! I feel we have been snubbed :( Our crop of acorns was very poor this year.
June I love your photo of the grey seal surrounded by dappled gold, really beautiful. We once paid for a trip out of Sandwich on an ex life boat to see common seals and there were lots of them lolling about on the sand spits. The boat driver was very good because he wouldnt go near them to avoid disturbance, but we got a really good view! Great to see but do not know the difference between common and grey seals?
Willow, the color on the water caught my eye, too. Not much view of the seal, but I thought the overall beauty of the picture made it worthy of posting.
We saw seals on the waterfront in San Francisco, California. Same trip as the Tijuana adventure.
COUNTDOWN FOR LOCH GARTEN NEST
60 days till EJ'S RETURN on Wed March 25th
66 days till ODIN'S RETURN on Wed March 31st
JUNE - 60 Days - Too long to wait for Scottish Ospreys.
Hope to see my first ospreys of 2015 in the next week on the Island of Bioko.
I have had a message from the monkey girls and they tell me they have seen a few ospreys in the same areas over the winter and they will show me them including one osprey we follow. They should be still there until at least March.
If you are wondering who the monkey girls are - they are students from USA on Bioko studying the worlds rarest primates on the island. They often come into the gas plant campus in a social aspect to use all the facilities where they are made most welcome.
Florida Ospreys
Dunedin - They have removed the cam and they believe the cam itself may be broken - hope to have more news this week.
Fort Myers - Ricky and Lucy have one egg but maybe an addition today.
Last season I visted both nests in May the latter was on my way from Naples to Sanibel for the day as you pass right next to the nest on the way - it is actually on Estero Island at Fort Myers Beach (Pink Shell Resort) just before you cross the causeway on to Sanibel island.
I just now checked C&T's countdown clocks, which say 58 and 65 days.
I will remind our readers that any arrival date is just a guess, but I do hope that C&T are correct or even late. Because yes, 60 days is too long for me too. The sooner they are both arrived at home and settled in the happier we all will be.
KEITH said "If you are wondering who the monkey girls are - they are students from USA on Bioko studying the worlds rarest primates on the island. They often come into the gas plant campus in a social aspect to use all the facilities where they are made most welcome"
No I wasn't wondering who the "monkey girls" are, because I thought I knew. I thought they were the ladies who work in the gas plant office or children of coworkers who have chicks of Oscar to take care of. But I was all wrong (for the first time ever,you realize ;)
I trust these students have government approval, including clearance for climbing up the mountain and carrying a camera and taking pictures. If so, maybe you can "hitch a ride" with them.
JUNE - In the past I have already hitched a lift from many of them up the mountain and to the southern side of the Island and we are in contact regularly.
Do they have approval - They are invited - This is just one group - VISTAS
There are many other groups on the Island - We have a good club on campus and most of the ex patriots working out there are from US so the groups come in and use our club as a social gathering.