Poole Harbour Osprey Project MAY to end of 2020 season

I think she must be on the campost again. There was a chirrup (and not obvious from the other cams I've got on!!) and lots of scratching, knocking noises and bouncing cam (with Scylla's amazing vid of the nightjar in the background - many thanks for that!).

Wonderful capture of the nightjar scylla, thank you. Amazing sound.

12.13 nearly 12.14  After a period of knocking and scratching, CJ7 took off and flew top right

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Thank you, SHEILA & KORKY!

I'm studying a tutorial on software that can compensate for MovieMaker's shortcoming (it left my 07 May Nightjar snap out of the video) but it's more discontinued Microsoft stuff and has already failed to function once so I'm trying another version... Microsoft used to do good software for video editing :'(  Sorry for digression, but in case anyone wonders where I am sometimes when I'm not here or sleeping ;) it's all in a good cause...

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CJ flew blurrily in the evening light @ 21:16:

Unseen visitor late last evening, it sounded heavier than CJ but who knows?  I cannot hear or see any sign of its take-off - maybe it was CJ and she slept on the campost?

Surely she can't have been on the campost all night and morning until we now see her fly, possibly in pursuit of an intruder?  But this is the next sign of activity I have found:

The next campost activity was heard @ 08:45 and that could have been her flying off at last!  

Another landing with chippy chirps @ 13:09, no-one seen.

SheilaFE said:

12.13 nearly 12.14  After a period of knocking and scratching, CJ7 took off and flew top right

You've highlighted my shortcoming, SHEILA - without the cam running I never see/hear live events, am reliant on spotting them when FF-ing thru in retrospect.  Shame.

Aha! I see that my last clip started @ 12:15:43, so during the seconds between the end of one and beginning of the other, a Sod's Law occurred ;-D

Brief catchup on her sightings yesterday.

She was on the nest for 5 minutes @ 16:00:

Then 20 minutes @ 18:00, involving chips and flaps on landing:

More chips when she touched down on the campost @ 19:46, no nest visit, I think she flew @ 21:00.

Clatter-bang @ 05:15, no nest landing.

I had to reboot so missed her landing @ 06:07 (per rollback).

Nice symmetrical flap as she moved from front to back:

She's been back up to campost and back down again... and is now hunched at the back, just waiting:

I wonder if anyone can recognise the voice of the passer-over who disturbed CJ?

Her feathers are like milk chocolate and cream :o

She flew off to the right @ 08:43.

Back with some tiny item in her talons:

Some preening, then off again - that's the last sighting up to 18:40.

I think that was some sort of Gull, scylla. Lovely snaps!