Poole Harbour Osprey Project MAY to end of 2020 season

Unknown said:

I liked the slide

I just had a look at it and the pics look rather fuzzy :(

I was dreading it would bring the family ;)

It sounded like CJ7 landing on the campost @ 07:29... I can't detect her leaving but she probably has.  Done up to 10:20 (with a short outage on most YouTube streams @ 09:20-ish).

scylla said:

Cirrus said:

I liked the slide

I just had a look at it and the pics look rather fuzzy :(

I was dreading it would bring the family ;)

It sounded like CJ7 landing on the campost @ 07:29... I can't detect her leaving but she probably has.  Done up to 10:20 (with a short outage on most YouTube streams @ 09:20-ish).

CJ7 has changed colour overnight

Unknown said:

CJ7 has changed colour overnight

She heard that you weren't happy, RICHARD, and went to the beauty salon for a makeover as soon as lock-down was lifted

She was on the nest for about 3 minutes this afternoon - didn't do much, fortunately, because the stream was ultra-glitchy - I tried to check it on rollback but couldn't find her.

I think the spider has rebuilt the web but it's above the lens:

I've got a corrupted file from 14:15-20:15 approx, it plays with grey patches flickering thru it.  I think I would have seen CJ7 if she'd been on the nest for longer than a minute, so I'll say she wasn't.

The next clip was routine, no CJ7 - and when nightcam kicked in we could see why

The rain stopped at about 22:40.

I know this is difficult to see... but this morning before 08:30 the deer entered from the "lane" in a tightish group and walked together down the side of the nest and disappeared, it was as if they were being led.  There were more deer than is apparent here.

Great find Scylla!

The afternoon footage juddered all the way thru, so here's a slideshow of CJ7's afternoon 5-minute visit:

Now!  I have to tell you the tale !!!

Here I am, severely crestfallen after the diffulties and error with the faulty afternoon footage but mightily relieved to see that the evening footage is fine... and I'm scrolling thru, it's breezy, but how come all the sticks on the nest suddenly jiggled at once when nothing else happened?  Oh well, never mind, I've got lots else to do... but you gotta check, my bossy self tells me 

So I narrowed it down and look what a reward we got   (The sound was out of sync, I've done my best.)

RICHARD will be very cross that we haven't got better resolution, and maybe also cos I've called them "variegated" - that's my own informal term and you'll see what I mean - how about the black ones, eg the one on the perch?  and tan ones.  I do hope they are Starlings, or I'll have a red face (but I should be used to that!).

It started raining not long after nightcam:

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Well spotted, scylla! It’s a mixed flock of adult and juvenile starlings - the juveniles are much paler than the adults.

Great capture Scylla, another first for the nest, a flock of Starlings.