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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 ;)
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Unknown said:
Turned up about 1704, did some nest tidying and then sat on edge of nest looking round. Stayed for about 1/2 hour
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It had to be done, of course
I do agree that it's a great sadness and worry that the Scottish Ospreys suffered such a bad season - and hated to be reminded of Blue28, one of the unfortunate birds making their way back home who may have been swept out into the Atlantic
In the evening a little bird was on the perch for nearly 4 minutes, until another "tempted" it away:
The moment of nightcam - not a strand of gossamer or a bubble in sight!
But since then he's been a PITB
Only spider activity overnight:
But this morning @ 06:36 and stayed for over 40 minutes!
Darkened - what do you think about that, RICHARD? I'll keep the setting for the video and see how it turns out - it won't be the end of the world if everyone disapproves ;)
I would love it if they could sort out the resolution and clarity on the camera. It would help small bird ID greatly. I'm pretty sure the little birds are a couple of Greenfinches. Although CJ7 looks a bit better when darkened the overall clarity of the picture isn't great, which is nothing to do with what you've done.
Richard B
Unknown said:I would love it if they could sort out the resolution and clarity on the camera
Did you ever see LG at its best? It didn't last long, but EJ (RIP ) used to look fabulous.
I don't have access to most pics due to broken laptops, but here's a lovely snap from 2018 per BIRDIE NUM NUM - sorry for the digression but the remarks about cam quality brought it all back to me.
This morning's first visit - over 40 minutes - by CJ7 - yes, she does still look strange, darkening doesn't work.
2nd & 3rd visits - shorter:
Checked thru up to 10:28.
Not only has CJ7, in her chaotic fashion, got the nest quitie ship-shape, but she's also tidied up the spider web for us - only one strand tonight !!! (So far.)
The fascinating flyer was only on-screen for one second, I landed on it serendipitously
Has the Nightjar courting season finished? The above was only up to 22:30 so I can't resist stopping the nest clip @ 03:15 to see what happened next...
This is real-time reporting, folks! Talk about serendipity! See who I found while monitoring LenSpider's progress - snaps 3,4,5:
The flyby:
No perchings seen, no vocals heard. I will check thru again later.
This was omitted:
This is the current mess:
Well it was the current mess, before I had a glance at the live cam and got a shock! (Spider-related, not bird-related.)
The last frame before daycam:
Noises heard 05:47++ could be raindrops.
2013 photos & vids here
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Here's one I made earlier that I forgot to upload, dang.
The clip on the front is just to show that the web survived the start of the rain - from that point onwards I did not edit at all, so the corvid's sudden appearance was what actually happened, as were the other weird "effects". (And there's a repetitive bird call, twice I think for RICHARD or anyone else to ID. And yes, I can manage the Wood Pigeon's voice!)
No snaps, so that the visuals will be a surprise ;)
It is so nice to see CJ7 popping in more regularly now.
13.25 she lands
Looks around - is there another in the area?
It's a bit breezy
more looking around
6
What's up there?
She flew to the perch
13.30 she flew off
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To keep you going (a vid will follow).
She hadn't been fishing by lunchtime - unless she'd had a failure-to-catch :o
Well that didn't take long - she wasn't very active and only stayed 5 minutes: