Yesterday was a thundery day of plenty, after a slow start (leftover whale on nest) and some horrible aggression, Goliath on David. I think Fergus's suggestion is perfect (notwithstanding the pronounced genders) until the official names are decided on.
Having slept thru a lot of it, please see CC's summary (link to follow).
However, I thought that the "mystery bird" could do with demonstrating prominently, as a number of us have missed previous IDs.
Male and female cuckoo - he seems to be modifying his call with "pop-ups", and she is the "bubbler":
Here is the thunder that didn't bring on a storm, thank goodness; then Goliath exercising her maturing voice and then enjoying a couple of poops:
EDIT - And this is the male cuckoo with echo-cackle - is that him or another bird?
IMAGICAT
Odin has landed, no fish as far as I can see.
Now EJ with another stick.
scylla said:Odin has landed, no fish as far as I can see.
I can't edit that to say "but is there a fishtail underfoot?" because the pics are not there when I try to.
Odin has left, EJ has been toing and froing with sticks, and I can't keep up because my network is on a go-slow.
Suffice to say that this is the status quo:
#1 is joining in with EJ, fish-calling :-)
EJ has flown yet again.
She returned and almost immediately flew off again, after some chirps.
She has returned and left again since my last post! I'm trying to do snaps, honest!
Toings and froings:
If it weren't for the smudge we might have had a decent fly-off here ;-)
Here's Odin again, followed closely by EJ. No fish.
I had to wait until his face was out of the smudge, so no nice wing shot:
Odin flew, then EJ flew.
I cannot keep up, in case you hadn't noticed!