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

Yes, very touching Albatross video posted by KORKY :-*

I am still monitoring the Stump cam but there's been a downturn in activity since the manic period I last posted.  Vole seen more than mouse.

Ohio today

Northern Cardinals.

Male chased off a female:

The males are so striking:

But the females have such a gorgeous mix of colours:

This one is darker than average:

Major works carried out - a ladder was also involved :o

The Passenger Pigeon is not extinct! ;)

I saw this Mourning Dove yesterday as well as today, it has a similar injury to the poor mite with the leaking crop, but not so severe - it wasn't possible to examine it from the front:

Ohio

I keep getting an orange box "An error occurred, please contact webenquiries@etc.  I shall have to come back and arrange the snaps later.  

Done.

The Carolina Wren is a daily visitor:

Late afternoon the not-quite-so-badly injured Mourning Dove repeatedly browsed in all the food trays,upper and under, looking quite desperate:

The Dove was gulping a lot, you're supposed to be able to see the difference in these two shots :-/

All filled up and a new "seed ring" added:

 This tail:

Belonged to this skunk:

Another critter who got close to the lens, but with the front end rather than the back, was the bi-coloured cat:

It may have caused consternation among the raccoons, who couldn't settle at the feeding tray and even ran across the screen... but they did get back to normal:

Great screen captures. Thanks Scylla!

Lovely snaps scylla. Sad to see the mourning dove though.
Sorry I'm awol again and can't see any webcams

Thanks, Everyone, for all of the lovely captures. Both Cardinals are gorgeous.
CC and Scylla, Sorry to hear that you are having troubles. Hope things settle down in a satisfactory manner for both of you.

I get these informative e-mails periodically and thought I'd share this one (I hope this is the correct forum for doing so).
www.10000birds.com/puerto-ricos-birds-after-hurricane-maria.htm

Slightly different feeding regime @ 11.07 this morning ... wonder if the guy was giving a commentary to watchers?
https://youtu.be/fCR_lJg9M7k

Well done and thank you, WENDY. This stream can be downloaded but it would have to be done in a different way from my other downloads so I'm not going to be able to accommodate it, purely due to the time/attention it would require.

Thank you for good wishes, GARDENBIRDER, I am still trying to digest our dear CC's last message :'(

LISA - I think CATLADY has stipulated that "anything goes" here ;) so thank you very much for that link - more devastation and suffering :'(

I am healthy in body, but my dearest friend is not, as we discovered at Xmas, and I may lose her soon. I've also simultaneously lost my 10 yr relationship, and am devastated. My distraction from this is accompanying my friend on her medical appts locally and at a distance. We are each other's moms, and in that we are very fortunate.

My friends here are a balm to me I cannot express. Seeing the birds and critters and comments refreshes me in ways nothing else can...strange!
So bless you all, I am leaning on you, I'll be in and out as I can here!

scylla said:

Thank you for good wishes, GARDENBIRDER, I am still trying to digest our dear CC's last message :'(