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

Boreal Ontario

The American Crows were at the feeders for a long time this morning, poor little birdies couldn't get a look-in:

21 March

Boreal Ontario

New feeders for springtime returners?  (Incidentally, I haven't seen the Western Meadowlark for ?2? days.)

A lot more groundwork The crows ate all the in-shell peanuts.  I haven't seen anyone in the red house yet - maybe the flying squirrels will eat in there and be safe from owls?

©CornellLab, Boreal, Ont

After weeks away, the flying squirrel appeared 2 nights running, 23rd and 24th:

For a few days the main visitors were American Crows, no Blue or Gray Jays seen, no Western Meadowlark, then on the 24th a little flock of Common Redpoll several times, with the odd Nuthatch visit.

I'll have to stop monitoring this clear and interesting feeder cam when more of our ospreys arrive home.

I popped to Boreal Ontario to see what new birds, if any, might have arrived in spring - found Dark-eyed Junco, Common Grackle, and Red-winged Blackbird.  I included a couple of Evening Grosbeaks because we never saw a lot of them over the winter:

It's been a while but here's Tiaki, the (female) Northern Royal Albatross chick, now 4 months old, in Dunedin, NZ

(c) DOC/Cornell

Here's 30 seconds from one of Peter Carnyx's cams, it's an RSPB site in Northern Ireland.

Recorded from YT rollback.  Am beyond frustrated that I actually stumbled upon the male "chirpling" but lost it while trying to pin it down in the 12-hour stretch

I think that the Carnyx website is undergoing a change of premises.

20 June - more CURLEW @ Antrim Hills, NI, courtesy of ©Carnyx

A changeover.  There is almost no sound but I found some by upping the volume x4 and reducing the resulting horrendous background rumble x6 or more, lost count!  So the vocals are probably not like they are in real life

Can't see much under the birds: