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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
A dry night followed. No-one on the nest up to 05:05.
Windy! I checked some cambumps but they were false leads
Late morning, this corvid spent 2 minutes darting about:
I had to reboot in the evening so missed a couple of minutes, but other than that possibility no-one has visited.
Only a Stonechat so far - it visited twice, this snap is from the first visit:
Then there was a third visit but the bird looked very tiny and I couldn't get even a half decent snap - but it still could have been the or a Stonechat.
08:54 Cambump, a few alarm chips heard.
10:30 approx - takeoff. No nest landing.
15:37 there was a cambump takeoff without me having detected the landing.
22:29 cambump with foot scraping - sounds a bit "blunt" for an osprey...
01:00 takeoff.
Surely an owl wouldn't have stayed that long, it must have been CJ or another osprey.
CJ7 appeared on the nest around 05.55 am, she moved a couple of sticks around, then flew to the perch where she still is at this moment in time.
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Mike B said:MC. At 0032 there was Nightjar heard on the cam post and seen flying off. Could that be involved in your late night, early morning soundings?
I missed it, MIKE, and those blighters at Dell have emptied my Recycle Bin so I can't get it back
There have been lots of complaints about it and Dell said they'd stop doing it but still are.
I'll just add tuppence-worth to MARY's report - CJ landed on the campost with a clatter but no vocals @ 04:28.
Landing:
Take-off @ 06:13 - not a very good photo opportunity here, and we didn't see her fly around:
Two Nightjars passing in the night - of course I can't tell if each of them used the perch or if it was just one. Three minutes altogether. Sound greatly "enhanced" but I'm not taking off any more background noise because it's going to distort the "voice", which could hardly be heard live.
If I go backwards one frame at a time after it's almost passed by I can get this wing, but not going forwards :-/