HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY NEW MONTH!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week and a good spring (autumn for AQ).
The roofing crew arrived on Wednesday, instead of Friday, to do some emergency, initial work on my roof. While they worked up there, R.T. Hawk and his mate flew over them several times, and then the pair sat in their pine tree and watched the crew closely. The men didn't pay much attention to their wary observers.
Red-tailed hawks are known to be very curious birds, so maybe they just wanted to see what was happening. I actually wondered whether the hawks thought the men were "intruding" on my "nest," even trying to steal it from me. In their raptor minds, they probably consider my house to be my nest. If I had acted distressed or angry, I wonder whether they would have helped me "defend" it?! LOL
Take care, all.
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For anyone interested, here's a link to a video featuring EJ's first LG breeding season in 2004. I can't recommend this enough!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Clare - thanks for the link to the 2014 season. That was my first year watching and could only watch on my lunchtime at work. I fell in love with EJ and Henry! I was also able to watch the Blackwater cam that only refreshed their picture every 10-15 minutes.
LINDA - did I get it wrong? I thought Awful Cousin was going to be with other relatives in different parts of the UK?
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
She flies over and goes straight down from her London airport to the Isle of Wight, where she has some cousins from the other side of her family (no relation to us, really) After she has driven them crazy, she flies up North and visits us. She used to visit people who live in The Lake District, who are the children of some neighbours she had there about 50 years ago - last year they managed to book a holiday and be away when she came to visit..... strangely, they seem to be away again this year......
Have been on the phone to sis in law, who is in pieces over how this woman has us all scurrying around as if we were ants under a stone....
Your family must be too nice and polite, Lindy, I don't think I could put up with her, not so regularly anyway!
They are my Other Half's family, Chrisy. I would have been rude to her myself, by now!
I've been very curt with her on the phone, in the past, but she's too thick skinned to be bothered.
Your OH's family could adopt me and Limpy, if you like. We're brilliant at being subtle and tactful around (ahem!) awkward relatives.
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