MANTON BAY- MARCH 2019.

Good morning, KAREN :)  I nearly had a heart attack then, thinking that the bird was blurred out by blobs and it might be a YOU-KNOW-WHAT !!! ;-D

If you don't know what it is, we need CLARE here to ID it.  Magnificent gull of some kind ??? Or ???

Morning Scylla,

You remind me of last year when I was blethering on about the EGs pink feet when I saw movement and then double looked at the nest thinking that aint an EG - it was a YOU_KNOW-WHAT !!! LOL

I thought I was going to have a heart attack for my heart was pounding and I was shaking and roaring with excitement as I typed. And when I saw the "X" I was beside myself for I knew it was Maya.

That was 12 March, only 2 days from now. I wonder if she will return again so early or perhaps Blue 33 will set off quicker to be here waiting for her. They really are an amazing pair.

PS  I don't know what type of gull it is, perhaps someone more knowledgeable will let us know.

Trouble is, when we have to access RF for a new post, whether we do it via "post anything and edit" or by replying to a post before the last one on the page, we can't then quote from the last post :-/

Anyway, I can imagine your excitement, Karen :)

Googling pictures found me the possibility of a Lesser Black-backed Herring Gull.  As said, we need Clare, she is red-hot on gulls.

Here's a roughly shortened video, not much more informative that your snap:

scylla said:

Trouble is, when we have to access RF for a new post, whether we do it via "post anything and edit" or by replying to a post before the last one on the page, we can't then quote from the last post :-/

Anyway, I can imagine your excitement, Karen :)

Googling pictures found me the possibility of a Lesser Black-backed Herring Gull.  As said, we need Clare, she is red-hot on gulls.

Here's a roughly shortened video, not much more informative that your snap:

www.youtube.com/watch

I did this by starting a  post below with nothing in and then coming back to yours!

EDIT Then I went back and deleted the blank item!

Gosh Mike sounds a bit complicated, I probably won't be quoting posts :)

Thanks for the gull ID.

Now the EGs are back -

first one

then the other

(c) ROP

They have long gone by the time it has taken me to post this.    

Mike B said:

Then I went back and deleted the blank item!

About to do that now.

I notice that this quote is in the shaded box, but the one you just did, Mike, is not.  What will this turn out like?

Karen W said:

Morning all - thanks for the updates.  Looks very cold this morning.

A new visitor to the nest just now

(c) RutlandOsprey Project

It is a faff for sure Starling but until RF is sorted I'm afraid we've had to find out various ways of dealing with it!!

I can certainly ask Alan BUT I think the RF issue occurred during a change and it seems it may be more complicated as it was hoped to have been fixed a few weeks ago.