OFF-SEASON OBS - LOCH GARTEN - September 2019-February 2020

scylla said:

I think that should have said "snuck".  Getting so old here :o

Nooooooo! Please do not change---I knew exactly what you meant, love it for two reasons:
• ALL your scyllogisms make me smile.
• I have said "snook" myself on occasion.
And regarding oldness, you have plenty of good-natured company. That's why we're here!

Thank you for the news, GARDENBIRDER

Thank you for the amazing "Ouch!", ALAN

This morning at about 5 past 9 we had two black birds on the perch - one at a time, the first very briefly - CIRRUS (my go-to LG bird lady) thinks they may be juvenile Rooks - we did see a pair of Rooks in the summer, on the perch tree next to the nest.  A few glimpses of the pale feathers have convinced me, if I needed convincing ;)

All the usual birds appeared today, Coal Tits dominating as always lately.

A Chaffie was prominent throughout the afternoon:

A Coat Tit was easily the last bird tho a Crestie had been an evening visitor.

BirdWatchingHQ (Akron, Ohio) has done a 4K test today - if you scroll back at this time of the night you can still get daytime footage - Northern Cardinals, Sparrows, Mourning Doves (whose plumage shows up amazingly in 4K), a Woodpecker I can't ID...

And many others.  I've shown you this cam before, it's the one with the critter cam below showing raccoons, opossums, skunks, groundhogs, etc, at nighttime.

I hope everyone gets to read this article re the Centre at LG and the loss of the feeder cam.

First in by a long chalk:

It dropped a nut but didn't bother to fetch it in the end:

First bird:

Then another squirrel, then the second bird:

It made the thirds queue up... seconds later there were 7 Coal Tits queuing:

They'd all given up when a BlueTit arived with a couple of Coal Tit hopefuls:

Then the Coal Tits made up for lost time, but it was a squirrel who was first in colour.

That's up to 08:50 - can't do any more till later because I've caught my brother's cold >:(