March thread.
This post updated 01 June
MrsG returned on the 25th of March and was joined by Aran on the 29th.
(The beginning of the reunion video is a must-see for all fans of MrsG - I'm posting it today 01 June, to remind us of a happy time before the tragedies of May 2021.)
The month of May brought unrelenting wind, rain and corvids, as well as persistent intruder KS8 (among others) - and Aran somehow injured his right wing, rendering him unable to fish. Within a few days all the chicks had sickened and died. It could hardly have been more stressful for MrsG and Aran, but they are recovering together while the caring Glaslyn team is supplying fish each night.
(The chicks' bodies have been removed from the nest by Aran and MrsG, so we shall never know the cause of their deaths.)
In the right margin of this page are links to Glaslyn's posts documenting the misfortunes on the nest.
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Birdies LG DU update.
Thank you, MIKE
For the past 2 days, only distant fuzzy swans seen, but lots of them at times. Chat is currently unpopulated except for one post that might be spam, so I can't check for notables.
Today, could these be the Redwings you told me about, CIRRUS? The cam didn't wait for them to fly.
On a small screen they look like Starlings. They love perching high in leafless winter trees.
Richard B
Was just having a lookseeee at the camera and thought , this bit of chat was interesting.
This Squirrel froze for so long that I thought it was the cam - but then noticed the occasional blink:
It then went under the nest and Heather managed to zoom in but it was just a grey blob.
Lots of swans all day, preening, feeding, flying, and just sailing along:
Goosander?
5 swans taking off - but one's a bit behind and totally hidden here:
Which wader? There were a few of them in a flooded field:
Poor trees - will they survive?
Only the Whooper Swans so far today, and it's such miserable weather we couldn't even see a good fly-off: