/JULYLast month's thread.
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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
Nightcam scene last night:
Spider started work (from what we could see):
It must have been working very hard:
We were left with a lot more web showing than usual :)
It rained on 'n off overnight and probably still is doing so. No-one seen up to about 09:20.
Someone tweeted their first NIGHTJAR find Lovely to see it in colour - what great camouflage :o
This afternoon CJ7 spent a few seconds on the nest but the cam was madly glitchy so here are a few snaps. She didn't "do" anything.
Later a corvid visited twice, did a lot of preening on the perch and the fencing, this is just its departure:
Nightcam view
Then the tiny spider came down and seemed to wrap and remove the "morsel" on the right:
I woke up to a complete seize-up this morning and it looks as tho there'd been problems for several hours, so I've probably got more gaps than usual.
What a flaming tragedy, our Nightjar "sang" for 2 minutes then spent nearly 5 minutes on the perch. I just sent a snap to my friend and he couldn't "spot the Nightjar" - but I had the advantage of flashing eyes
I made the video Unlisted because I haven't edited it.
Only part of the web was demolished, that was @ 02:35 - the big blob is a mystery objet, it's not the spider.
Lovely clear transition to daycam but it was actually quite misty, you've seen it before so no snap, gotta get onnnnn !!!
scylla said:he couldn't "spot the Nightjar" - but I had the advantage of flashing eyes
Got it scylla! Great video. Never seen/heard a nightjar in the flesh
Late afternoon, CJ7 spent an hour on the perch :o I'm sure she'd been on 'n off the campost a couple of times at least before that.
No glitches - she wasn't close enough to the cam, IMHO :)
Nightcam view - the spider did the demolition during daycam, behind our backs