As it's nearly that time I suppose it's time to start a new Thread for the Upcoming season.
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I passed by some obvious hail, it looked shortlived. Mainly it was very dim and damp:
After half an hour on the nest, CJ7 flew up to campost @ 20:32 and was not seen again last night:
[This space represents the laboured over framed snap that I just did but failed to save and I'm not going thru that again.]
OK, here's the snap but it's a makeshift frame:
Looks and sounds like a still night:
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Squirrel/Osprey interface about 08.41 this morning, not sure who was more surprised!
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Unknown said:Squirrel/Osprey interface about 08.41
I don't have it I think I must have accidentally deleted that session along with the 1,309 Glaslyn files that flooded me today - and when I went over-confidently to rollback to get it from there... I was too late !!! It had fallen off the front end !!!
Anyway, back to CJ7 "trampling" her egg early this morning - she wasn't doing that, because a bit later she had to scare off a corvid, and as far as I can tell the egg survives.
Before that she'd spent some time with her egg:
In the evening she flew up to the campost @ 20:25 and was not on the nest after that.
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SheilaFE said:When I heard about the raven thief I went back (thanks for the vid for reference, Scylla!). They are such canny birds. It took the first egg, whether to feed young or for itself we will never know, but was back quite quickly for the second. Given that time difference I expected it to return for a potential third, but it didn't. Did it know there were only two? Can they count? LOL I didn't think that CJ7 was committed to the eggs anyway. When she returned she stood on the side seemingly unaware anything dire had happened. Well, it would have been dire had they been fertilised of course. I'm still longing for a passing male to drop in. BirdGuides are still reporting sightings along the south of England.
When I heard about the raven thief I went back (thanks for the vid for reference, Scylla!). They are such canny birds. It took the first egg, whether to feed young or for itself we will never know, but was back quite quickly for the second. Given that time difference I expected it to return for a potential third, but it didn't. Did it know there were only two? Can they count? LOL I didn't think that CJ7 was committed to the eggs anyway. When she returned she stood on the side seemingly unaware anything dire had happened. Well, it would have been dire had they been fertilised of course. I'm still longing for a passing male to drop in. BirdGuides are still reporting sightings along the south of England.
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Here's my slow-motion clip of the squirrel incident...