The arrival of our couple, virtually together, was first snapped @ 19:12
©SANDRA !!!
©RICHARD G B
©SHEENA
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Yikes !!! I thought I must have missed it but it's all there waiting for attention :)))
Thank you, everyone, for the super captures and info :)
I can't believe they arrived together - but they did! ;-D
Three matings altogether, only the first successful, IMHO. They were on the nest nearly 13 minutes, this is cut down to 5 but no significant activity missing - you know how they like to stand and (males) mantle and (females) look a bit nonplussed ;)
UNCUT VERSION:
The first was the best ;)
He sat here for ages after his second nestcupping:
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IMAGICAT
Aila :-*
Louis :-*
Scrolling thru 6 hours means that images flash by in an instant, so I don't pick the best ones necessarily, unless I cut out a very short portion to go thru, and have to repeat that throughout the 6 hours. If the screen-capture keeps up, that will be in one-hour clips and more manageable, but the quality may be noticeably lower.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
Just for you scylla, pic of possibly the biggest midge in Scotland...
Louis has been on the nest for 35+ minutes - but I can't get at him on my newly-repaired laptop because there was a mega-Windows-update (the April 2018 one) and it turned off sharing and although I've changed back the settings the laptop is still not visible on the network.
Just after daycam, so not at its best: