Poole Harbour Ospreys and Relocation 2020

As this could to be a monumental year, with the possibility of the first breeding Ospreys in Poole for a very long time, and the chance of more relocated birds returning I thought we might as well start off a new thread.

Richard B

  • 2033 and something banging about on the cam post again.

    Richard B

  • Tony T said:
    Great captures, especially the stick midair, sharp eyes there to capture that shot.

    That's very kind of you, TONY - but I'm not as acute as you might think ;)  I'm downloading the stream of this cam (and several others) 24/7.  All the YouTube streams come down in 6-hour clips and start a new one within seconds of a "full" one cutting off.  Then I scroll thru and see what I can find, and when I see a fly-in I can advance/rewind one frame at a time to get the exact shot needed.

    Only problem is that it takes time and I am (1) inefficient, and (2) need lots of breaks.

    I see that you, PATILY, have seen something about a "bleached effect" on this cam.  MARY & I have both found it difficult to enhance the depth and colour, but I have decided that PH have played a clever game, as we get very little blurring on this cam compared to others, which is wonderful.  Maybe with practice we'll be able to dramatise the colours etc eventually, but I expect most are happy with the way it is.

    I put these snaps thru a "batch resizer" with the saturation upped a bit, and they were spoiled Disappointed relieved  But it's such a pain having to downsize pics individually.  Shan't do it again unless I find better software.

    She was on 'n off the nest all day until mid-afternoon at least:

    She's left-footed:

    A cambump betrayed her evening visit, she chirped and stayed quite a while until another bump told us she'd left:

  • Cambump @ 05:53, she dropped down a minute later, since when she's pottered a little bit and mainly stood around, unpestered by anyone :)

    It looks as tho someone's drawn lines on her beak - well it wasn't me!

  • Good Morning Everyone

    Lovely round up of captures once more Scylla 

    Reports on chat say CJ7 arrived 05.54 

    I had a go at trying to capture her winged entrances but it is very difficult and like you say Scylla takes a lot of time and effort to do it.  

    She was pottering around the nest, but has just flown at 07.01 am

    Posing Smiley

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    It is wonderful to have such a clear cam to watch her in all her glory, oh to have had a cam like this over the years watching EJ too. 

    © BIRDS OF POOLE HARBOUR OSPREY PROJECT

  • I managed to get a couple of snaps of her arriving with a big stick.

    © Poole Osprey Project

  • MARY said @ 07:01

    oh to have had a cam like this over the years watching EJ too. 

    If only! :'(

    .

    I'm just going thru what I've got and expect I'm duplicating some of the super snaps already posted, but can't resist her :-*

    She was very busy up until lunchtime:

    I think this one eventually went over the far side, on the left near the back:

    She used both feet this time (me having claimed she was left-footed yesterday):

    Last seen on her way up to the campost.  Later I saw a cambump but no osprey.

  • CJ7 (presumably - I did see a leg ring of some kind) dropped onto the nest @ 05:46, stayed less than a minute and had not returned by 07:30 (at which time my download ended and I'm not stop/restarting the new one now, am in great haste.  It's been a windy night on the nest.

    ©BirdsOfPooleHarbour

  • It was CJ7 MC and she has still not returned.
    I rather suspect she may be perching out of this cold wind.
  • She returned at 09.45 and has been waiting ever since.

    © Poole Harbour Osprey Project

  • She's back on the nest now but obviously not enjoying the wind.