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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
scylla said:
Thank you, RICHARD. Somewhere I need to raise the question "bill or beak", it's been bothering me for a long while ;)
Scylla
In reply to your bill v beak question have a look HERE
Richard B
Interesting, Richard. While it may still be true at Cornell (and elsewhere?) as it was in 2009 that 'bill' is more commonly used than 'beak' by ornithologists, I've always presumed they were roughly interchangeable, but that 'bill' was used more often when the bird has a fairly flat or broad bill as in ducks and that 'beak' is more often used when the bird has one ending in a sharpish point. But I'm not an ornithologist. And regardless, whichever is used, we pretty much know what is meant!
Kind regards, Ann
For half an hour from 21:50 the Nightjar was in-out-in-out over and over again. Having said that, I can't tell if it was actually 2 Nightjars changing places as we only saw one at a time.
The stream dropped out just after 00:30 but picked itself up again. Checked up to 01:08.
Later the Nightjar was back for 5 minutes:
And we were treated to a Sparrowhawk on the perch for 2 minutes after daycam. Wisely or not, I cropped it:
After that there were 4 single corvid visits, here's a Raven:
There was a takeoff @ 08:08 but I didn't get the landing so have omitted it. Then a big scrabble, probably not an osprey? Then much later a takeoff and bird seen flying away from right to left - speedy.
I haven't got the afternoon because the stream went down @ 14:00-ish and they changed the URL.
Last night the Nightjar went after an insect (that we couldn't see) in the foliage but wasn't with us very long - just the one double session over 7? minutes:
Magical morning at Coombe Heath, RSPB Arne, watching an osprey catch a fish in the Middlebere Channel (a first for me, & I got it on video, so exciting!).
And again in slow motion...
© Alison Copland
2013 photos & vids here
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Unknown said:Magical morning at Coombe Heath, RSPB Arne, watching an osprey catch a fish in the Middlebere Channel (a first for me, & I got it on video, so exciting!).
I'm so happy that you had that well deserved thrill, Alison