NEWS FROM OTHER NESTS - 2021

Unknown said:

Nice to see all is going well at the Glentress Forest

I've never been able to get the Tweed Valley cam, Alan.  Today, Firefox says it's dangerous, and Edge and Opera both show this in the cam panel:

My Norton Security has given the 'Safe Web' green tick to say the site is ok, Scylla. I'm on Chrome.

I just can't get the cam at all, Scylla.

Hi Sheila, good to see you

This is the link I watch Tweed Valley on

Fish , mom and chicks

Thank you, SANDRA - I had it all the tiime but kept insisting on trying via the F&L web page

SheilaFE said:

I just can't get the cam at all, Scylla.

So use Sandra's link, SHEILA, it leads to a full-page cam - albeit somewhat stuttery

This isn'y exactly nws from any particular nest except my thougts were atoused when I looked in at a storks; nest un the NetherlandsI had been following intermottently only to discover, to my horror, that both chicks had died. It really seems to be a particularly bad year for birds given the poor unseasonal weather On Springwatch they have been explaining why it has been a bad year for blue-tit chick survival and out of the osprey nests we can see only Foulshaw Moss has 3 chicks!

With the nest failures and reduced numbers of hatched chicks it will be interesting to see if the next stage of the Poole Harbour Osprey Project translocation goes ahead this year, after it was cancelled last year, when no chicks were translocated.

Following on from the bad news posts  ...

Tweed Valley - just to show I've got it - if fuzzly - I should have downsized it but...

10:20hr the 2 chicks were lying more-or-less in Mama's shadow: