Poole Harbour Osprey Project MAY to end of 2020 season

Scylla,

I did try the magnifier on the Nightjar in your clip, but as you predicted it didnt do much, in fact the bird looks better in your video.

I did take this one at 1625 today, it's your friend back again.

© BofPH

Unknown said:

I did take this one at 1625 today, it's your friend back again

Excellent, thank you - especially because I've just come here to report that it's been on the perch about 20 times today up to 16:44 (seriously, my eyes nearly popped out of my head when it popped on/off/on/off)...  but I haven't snapped it 

I'm off now, see you later.

Either side of 19:00 the Stonechat flew around and down from perch to nest, spent about 8 minutes preening, back up to perch and off.  My attempt at using the magnifier resulted in 3 different size Stoneys  

21:04 flew off from final visit:

20:22 someone landed on campost but I couldn't identify from sound.

Then there was a tantalising flash which took ages to track down and turned out to be a crane-fly-like insect:

Plenty of insects on the nest but it's not seething like some nests do.

Up to 02:30.

Big breakdown this morning but I don't think we had any visitors up to 05:30.  Then some minutes missing till I sorted the problem.

Then, 4 (I think) crows (I think) visited:

Then the Stonechat...

With magnifier:

Without magnifier:

I'm useless at manoeuvring with it :(

Then, I hope, a Great Spotted Woodpecker (I wouldn't know if it's a similar variety):

Up to 10:33.

scylla said:

Nothing (according to me, scrolling thru at a rate of knots and losing all kinds of critters in the skipped frames) until...

https://youtu.be/YBAVAllPVmo

Got scared off!

Back again:

Final departure.  (Note the spider-web strand - I see that the web is responsible for the clusters of "orbs" we sometimes see overnight.)

I don't think a magnifier would do us much good in this instance, at that time of the day/night.

It's continuing misty:

Only just realised the wonderful small bird life on this Poole webcam (fingers crossed we will get Ospreys breeding here). I've been listening to the bird sounds - fantastic to hear the Nightjar!

Never occurred to me that it might land on that wonderful stick (which is really popular with the birds!) - thank you so much for capturing it on video, Scylla.

Glad you enjoyed it, BIRDSONG - I'd only seen photos of a Nighjar before and it was such a thrill to find it here!

Unknown said:

It's a young Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Thank you, RICHARD - I did google images of it to try to firm up, I couldn't make it a Lesser, which would be more notable :)

Osprey (probably CJ7) arrived with fresh-looking fish around 15.23pm and landed on camera pole. (Thanks to the livestream chatters for spotting this.) Here's a heavily cropped screenshot.

© Poole Harbour Osprey Project.