Poole Harbour Osprey Project 2021 Season

Just check out the size of the beak on this. No doubt about ID for this Corvid.

Is it any wonder it can steal an Osprey egg so easily.

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Richard are they a common bird in the Poole area?

There are a few about, showing up in several locations.
I get them flying around my house and there has been a raven nest about 200yds from my front garden for the last couple of years.

I'm having to edit this post to keep things in the right order - as it looks as tho I went AWOL yesterday after the early part of the day, whatever came over me?!

25 May

Lunchtime matings!

Then I framed a lovely snap of a soggy Raven, only to now see that it's the exact same shot that RICHARD posted yesterday!

In the evening 022 spent 10 minutes waiting and nestorising +/- 21:00:

Towards the end of the 10 minutes he flew off and brought back a bunch of thin stuff, which he couldn't think what to do with so he left it straggling over the right side:

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No more sightings of Nightjar

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26 May

No-one seen this morning except the Raven I posted earlier, who arrived @ 07:10 and left @ 07:23.

022 was in and out this morning between 10:23 and 11:25, just pottering - he did pose for a brief spell:

Visits this morning from both 022 and CJ7, and this monster keeps coming back.

 

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CJ7 showing off her new hairdo and 022 just chilling out.

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Just been watching 022 having a thorough preen Its the first time in ages I;ve managed to see anything other than an empty nest and all the while there was obviously somebody on the cam post
Eventually 022 took off from the left side of the nest and then around the back and judging by the camera wobble and the calls of, I presume, CJ7 022 had come to have his "wicked way" No idea, of course, whether it was successful but it did answer the Q I was askingmyself as I watched 022 on the nest, " Do these 2 ever interact?"

Trust me, patily, they have done an awful lot of 'interacting'! (On and off camera.)