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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
I hope it is OK to post this here...
If anyone would like to buy a print of the CJ7 painting posted earlier on this thread, it is now on eBay. All proceeds will go to the osprey project.
CJ7 listing
If you're not on eBay, but would still like one, please send me a private message.
Richard B
Here are the Mistle Thrushes, unedited:
Unknown said:Trust me on this one Scylla
As well as on everything bird-related, RICHARD, implicitly
I wonder if the wind was in a different direction, denying us the wild streaks we usually get? But I now see that it got worse towards morning:
Look what it did to the cam colour:
During the day there were 3 Raven visits, plus this little bird which I should never have cropped, it's so grainy - but I'm just getting the hang of how to do it and I don't get time to practise on stuff that's never going to be uploaded
Tony
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wherryman/
Tony T said:I think your "little bird" could be a Wheatear
Thanks, TONY! Richard has ID'd one on here a couple of times, too, and maybe I should have recognised it among the pixels ;)
Early nightcam it looked like aliens were landing:
The weather seemed to improve, or lessen in severity, a bit after 04:00.
Two Ravens were very active and playful, I'd have done a video but the stream was lurching in the high wind. Early afternoon, one dug out something from the nest, I couldn't tell if it was a lizard or a piece of mummified fish or what, but it had fun with it for several minutes and flew off with it in the end.
No rain so far this evening.
Unknown said:I reckon it's just a stick
Maybe, but if I'd taken the trouble to do a vid you'd have seen it stripping bits off and munching ;)
Today we had THREE Mistle Thrush! One of them can be seen flying in and then flying by, fleetingly, before it eventually hopped onto the nest and started ordering the others about.
There have been some long outages between (approx) something before 23:00 and 01:00, it seems to be running OK now.