Poole Harbour Osprey Project MAY to end of 2020 season

Afternoon visits (a short one and a longer one), during which she spent over an hour on the perch.  Just for the record ;)

Nightcam @ 22:09 (getting earlier, of course) revealed the sad state of the pretty spider's web:

Flurry of activity @ 00:25:

03:45 first sight of spider:

It was still working when daycam disappeared it.

I was really looking for Nightjars but saw no sign of any.  No birds seen up to 06:00.

I had very bad "jerks" on the cam for the whole of the morning's 6-hour clip, so here's a slide-show of CJ7's nest visits - which were not very eventful:

The afternoon was fine, but needless to say the nest remained empty.  I've done up to 18:25.

Isn't it sad when one's great excitement of the morning is to look back and see how that spider's web was at nightcam last night?

Well this was it - it doesn't look in working condition:

It was over 2 hours before LenSpider appeared and started snipping:

It inserted some bubbly strands and then got to work - this took 15 minutes, as we can see more of it than last time, but don't worry - it's 6x speed:

CJ7 turned up @ 05:44 and has been on 'n off the nest several times since - I'm doing a video, for my sins - so many dang clips!   And I even missed a landing with big stick because of end of one clip/start of another.

Back later.

CJ7 was in 'n out, on 'n off the campost, from 05:45 to 09:30 (noises only):

Towards the end of CJ7's visits a Great Spotted Woodpecker braved the perch for over a minute:

I really enjoyed the spider web video scylla - thank you.

Thanks, everyone, for your reporting and pics, especially Scylla. As for it being sad that 'one's big excitement of the morning' is checking the spider's web, well, things being as they are in the world today, we need to allow ourselves to be what is often viewed scornfully--to be 'easily amused' and to find joy and excitement in the tiniest as well as the greatest of things, particularly those of the natural world! Carry on, everyone!

Thanks, Wendy. Well that makes two of us at least, and with luck, others will admit to it, too--lol!

She stayed for nearly an hour at lunchtime, mostly standing still.

SLIDESHOW

The web survived the day but LenSpider decided it needed to come down:

Just before daycam - state of web and an insect flyer, not a bird:

Up to 05:00-ish.