/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 ;)
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I might as well add my theories to the mix
Unknown said:
Cirrus, this is the Blackbird we were on about, it's the one in the video clip Scylla posted.
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Above is a Blackbird
scylla said:
And it was back on the perch @ 15:10! ... and 17:00 !!!
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Above is a Stonechat
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Unknown said:We agree then Mary
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Certainly Richard - but then I never disagreed anyway
It's a shame - the Poole Harbour cam is great for CJ's wings but too grainy for showing detail on small, unfamiliar-looking birds.
Having said that, and even taking into account my appalling lack of expertise, I say that the beak is right for a Blackbird.
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This is the bird from my video, it got BOPS'd so you may have missed it.
I think you think we are ID-ing a Stonechat as a Blackbird, not so.
The Stonechat calls in almost every day, hence I didn't bother to specify it in that last dual snap further up the page. The one in this post is the blackbird (young/female) from the video, whose beak I think fits a Blackbird.
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And the Stonechat didn't let us down this morning ;) 07:33 for 15 minutes, then a shorter visit around 08:30.
That's it up to 09:55.
See y'all later.
I've been having a play and now worked out which are the "screen magnifier" keys, and there is a lens setting.
Here's the Stonechat mentioned by Scylla, and then viewed with Screen magnifier in lens mode at 300%.
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Great snap, RICHARD !!!
I'm not doing one for Stonechat @ 17:17-17:20, I could just as well quote yours.
The 18:41 one looks creamier-breasted tho, I've noticed this before - different bird or different light?
19:22 - you guessed it!
Nothing (according to me, scrolling thru at a rate of knots and losing all kinds of critters in the skipped frames) until...
Got scared off!
Back again:
Final departure. (Note the spider-web strand - I see that the web is responsible for the clusters of "orbs" we sometimes see overnight.)
I don't think a magnifier would do us much good in this instance, at that time of the day/night.
It's continuing misty: