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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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Per Twitter - this is probably what you'd call decent photo of a Wheatear, RICHARD :)
Kind regards, Ann
Our female Kestrel brought a tiny mouse to the nest and ate it.
She'd prefer the other side of the nest to the one she landed on:
And she's got her best not-cute expression on:
A bit later, one of our Ravens - I only did a vid for the sake of its cawing but the sound wouldn't amplify very much - just a bit:
Tony
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scylla said:Per Twitter - this is probably what you'd call decent photo of a Wheatear, RICHARD :)
That certainly is
Richard B
Unknown said:I wonder if they realised they were so close to an Osprey nest and whether they could have seen it if they had looked.
If they didn't see it then they must be totally blind as it's quite a conspicuous nest.
scylla said:
Alison Copland said: By the way, there was a lovely Hobby visit to the webcam nest about 8am, lasting for a good ten minutes.
Oh well, I've insisted it's a Merlin. I did tell my friend I'd stuck my neck out, so it may give everyone (RICHARRRRD?!!!) a laugh
The Hobby has the "teardrops" and a clean face, while a Merlin has less distinct "teardrops" and a speckled face.
Is this the bird that RICHARD thought might be a Wheatear? Is this any clearer?
A scrap of video, in case it helps - it was on the nest motionless in 3 places, 2 of them at the back, for 5 minutes!
Here's the nest seen from a distance, a couple of hundred yards from where the intruders were filmed