/JULYLast month's thread.
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Beautiful female, Rutland's CJ7:
The hoped-for partner for CJ7, local male LS7, has not yet appeared. CJ has been tending the nest daily and yesterday she took everyone by surprise, producing an egg - which took us by surprise by surviving... until midnight at least ;)
IMAGICAT
Peter on the YouTube chat said: the nightjar was making a racket at 4:11 for 2 minutes and then again at 4:31 for about a minute. I would never have recognised the sound as a bird call. I probably would have thought a distortion in the sound. You live and learn!
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BoPH are on chat now, Brittany.
She said "The intruder landed briefly on the camera pole and then they both promptly took off into the sky where we could hear them calling" "There’s not been any osprey activity on the webcam since then but we know CJ7 was on another of the artificial nests for 15 minutes around 8pm yesterday with no sign of the other bird" "We are presuming the other bird has continued on its migration."
And about the sex of the unringed intruder: "It's very difficult to assess the sex from the footage. Based on its size (and what I could make out of a dark breast band) I was leaning towards female, but her behaviour suggested it could have been male as she was initially not very defensive. Her behaviour was actually very interesting as it's unusual for a female to be so quiet when defending a nest from either a male or female"
and interestingly "That might be down to the fact this is her first proper experience of defending a nest. It was good to see her displaying mantling (defensive posture) behaviour though, And to see another osprey on the nest for the first time this year!!"
scylla said:
Cirrus said: I didn't see the eggs go. Were they taken by a corivid?
She broke at least one and buried them all, Cirrus.
Cirrus - Is this what you are referring to? Scylla replied to a question you wrote asking about the eggs.
If this is not what you are asking just ignore me
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Starling said:Cirrus - Is this what you are referring to? Scylla replied to a question you wrote asking about the eggs.
She probably won't see that either, but thank you anyway, dear STARLING ;)
CJ landed on the campost @ 12:58, chipping. I'm just checking thru... (She's on the nest at this moment.)
scylla said:CJ landed on the campost @ 12:58, chipping.
There was another bounce @ 13:55. No nest landing up to then.
Another landing on the campost with chips @ 15:25, and a fly-off @ 15:41:
No tussling with cambumps, she landed @ 17:05:
Tended the nestcup a little:
And has been here for some time, ongoing...
SHEILA, thank you for passing on the info re Nightjar, I'm going to fish in the Recycle Bin...
SheilaFE said: I would never have recognised the sound as a bird call. I probably would have thought a distortion in the sound. You live and learn!
Me too!
This is the full first session and just the end of the second, with sound enhanced as much as I can:
A shortie from YouTube with a lovely picture:
If you want to hear something pretty special then a trip to Low level heathland at dusk is something to behold as the Nightjars start to sing/call. 3 or 4 Nightjars can make quite a noise.
My first evening trip many years ago certainly had me scratching my head as I'd never heard one before.
Richard B
CJ flew around and onto the campost with the usual (per recent performances) chippy chirps - I haven't seen her since nor noticed any sign of her leaving, but who knows?