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Makov Animal Rescue Station
One of our favourites.
The Pond cam has remained throughout the year, with new-to-us maturing cygnets and fawns still at the bottle-feeding stage:
No table manners !!!
The second cam has been a White Stork nest, which I have not been following during Osprey season. The nest is very close to the ground because the Storks can't fly!
Today I find that the second cam has reverted to the birdie feeder we love - except it's been totally refurbished! (Wish they'd zoom out just a teeny tad.) Improved sound !!! And look who popped in a few seconds after I started the download
This was an incidental I came across on BirdwatchingHQ (you know how he hosts lots of cams unrelated to his own):
"Nocturnal thieves..."
IMAGICAT
Just love the stand off of the Blue Jay. Plucky!
camp robber !! well, is it the Whisky they are robbing the camp of we wonders, yes, we wonders
Thanks Scylla
This was the deepest the snow got:
The Pine Grosbeaks are getting more numerous and here some females joined in:
An American Crow spent several minutes pecking earnestly at the seeds, then this one appeared and filled its beak and flew off:
No sighting of the Ruffed Grouse yet - and of course we won't see the Western Meadowlark, who was way out of season last year. Who else is missing?
Golly, the ladies almost look like a different species. Thanks Scylla,
Unknown said:Golly, the ladies almost look like a different species. Thanks Scylla,
Its the same with the Evening Grosbeaks - those females have actually changed colour since I started covering this cam but I never had the presence of mind to keep a record of them. Next time there's a good view I'll snap it.
The reason we got the opposite profile from usual was that a Blue Tit had to be intimidated away on the left side:
What a beauty !
Boreal Ontario - in the hours before daycam it was so quiet and still that I thought the cam had frozen - but then at daycam 3-4 Black-capped Chickadees arrived, then a female Pine GroSbeak with Red-breasted Nuthatch, then 2 Nuthatches faced off across the feeder tray:
Nothing spectacular going on anywhere - IYKWIM
OK OK, so what does IYKWIM stand for. Remember, I live under a stone, sigh
'If You Know What I Mean', Cirrus (I had to Google it! lol)
Thank you, SANDRA - I thought it was a very common one, and had to add something to excuse the "nothing spectacular" claim...
...Which came too soon! There was a similar running commentary going on in my ickle head as I was scrolling thru the LG feeder this morning, and look!
I decided "young Sparrowhawk" but look forward to your advice, as it doesn't look like any other Sparrowhawk video I've found and certainly not like the one on this feeder 2 years ago
Here's a YT UK Hawks video and a BBC Sparrowhawk one. When you're not a proper birder you can't recognise variations ("you" means "I", of course)... but maybe the white splotches are a good indication?
Many thanks Sandra. Ye gods! I suppose it is a bit of a handful to type. Won't forget that one in a hurry