'FORUM FRIENDS, WILDLIFE-FROM-WHEREVER' (Off-season, all cams off at Loch Garten)

Ugh!  Just had a major laptop freeze while I was eating brunch and lost my whole post - what did I say, what pics did I post?

02 January

Makov Rescue Station

The ducks all stood to attention, I couldn't discern why:

Gettysburg

 Tiny Downy Woodpecker:

I already learned my lesson, GARDEN BIRDER, you will remember me mentally swapping Pileated and Red-headed - I won't do that again:

European Starlings are everywhere - Americans rarely fail to include "European", lol, and I sometimes dare to retort "American Gray Squirrel!  American Mink!  American Signal Crayfish!"

Next day was misty:

NE Florida Eagles

Gabrielle with egg in the early hours of 02 January

Finishing an early lunch:

More later...

scylla said:

Recapping to when the "cake" was whole and the Crow stole it - you can see it's quite heavy

Oh yes I see what you mean. Quite clunky with no hole, too. I'll retrieve my two cents!

03 January

NE Florida Eagles

Gabrielle suffered a familiar condition to start the day (but it didn't last):

As at UK 19:30 this evening, still just the one egg:

Boreal Ontario

A dull & windy nasty-looking day, fewer bird visits than usual and the Blue Jays are taking much longer to clear the peanuts.  Not seen the Meadowlark on the feeder at all, ground presence dubious.

This is the peanut butter spread on the hanging log - bi-lingual, of course

Quite a wonderful bundle of pics and vids there. Thanks Scylla

Well done Gabrielle and safe delivery of a third. Thank you Scylla

I've lost a post here and can't remember what was in it, and as I did some housekeeping in Snapshots this morning it's all lost.

05 January

Boreal Ontario

It was a very slow start this morning, with only the Nuthatch seen before the Blue Jay eventually disturbed the snow:

The footprints on both sides were already there when daycam came on.

Rescue Station Makov

Aww

What a pose!

The mass exodus started at the Pond early in the morning, I've noticed it's very lightly populated during the day:

Just the 2 swans preening and 2 storks standing by, and a duck or two:

So enjoyed the videos Scylla and what a lovely portrait of WooodyP and Mouse

My early morning delight, coming here. So funny, the ducks at 2x speed. :-)

05 January (still!)

Boreal Ontario

Something new to replace the accident-prone "cake"  

This may have been a Dark-eyed Junco - certainly not Western Meadowlark, whom I've been unable to find all day: