Bart molenaar said:One goshawk (or maybe different ones each time) is visiting the nest usually around midday for the last couple of days
Eek! Better start recording it again!
Bart molenaar said:I went to a falconry workshop today and held about 20 birds of prey on my wrist
Amazing! I can only recognise the Bald Eagle, and even then it looks small compared to the American ones I'm used to seeing online.
09 August
About 16:50 for 3-and-a-half minutes:
Finally after a few days without a visit one of the kids was on the nest this morning at 6am..
I think it is the same bird every time, but it could be different kids of course, but also comparing with previous visits I don't see any difference.
It's still looking very healthy and beautiful
The full 2:27 minutes of its visit:
12 Aug - 11:30 - Great Tits, Coal Tits, Wren - very roughtly cut excerpts:
Bart molenaar said: They did very well bringing up 3 beautiful goshawks, who will be in my memory for a very long time
They sure did, BART - it was just the poor little late-hatcher who didn't make it, purely thru being so much smaller and weaker than its siblings.
And! The adults mostly had the grace to leave our ospreys alone
But I do wonder about YA in Keilder and the youngest of his brood of 4 where Goshawks are concerned
I thought this was a bat until a closer look revealed... a Robin?
05:45 morning of 22nd:
26 August
Corrections much appreciated!
No mistaking the Jay who popped into frame and away in the morning - I remember recently someone posted Jay prey on this nest, maybe this was a relative hoping to find a survivor?