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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
really nice to see the goings on along the river and the farmer ? with his son
Let's hope people honour the warning notice and leave the Ospreys in peace
Thank you Scylla. . Won't be long now before the white fluff of the chick (which is gorgeous ) becomes feathers
The Makov Otter is back online, in place of the Pond cam. Don't know how long it's been there, I decided to put Makov cams back on and found the surprise. But the cams have been very unreliable, I had to delete loads of fragments.
Looks like it's a dish of dead ducklings that they put down half out of sight - the GW Egret makes a big beaky song 'n dance of every one - here's a sample - the Storks and Heron also dip into this dish.
Ryl Albatross took no notice of a passing cargo boat:
Lsst evening the wind sounded quite cruel but a passing boat showed no sign of being buffeted:
The last full day there were hardly any bird visitors or flyers overhead!
Boreal Ontario
Well that was unusual - 07:45 a solitary Common Redpoll was first in and remained totally alone for 5 minutes, until a BC Chickadee took over
Soon all the normal birdies arrived - including another pale Redpoll later:
Glaslyn
Tawny Owl is stil hunting from the same box but we didn't get a good view last night. This was the Barn Owl about to fly off:
This Robin arrived while the sun was showing off the spider's web, it went to the perch but was lost in bright blurry streaks:
Nearly all the cams went haywire yesterday afternoon/evening, so I switched off completely. Who knows what never-to-be-repeated treasures were missed?
Makov
A scruffy-headed Jay was quickly in-n-out:
Then a bull-in-china-shop Pheasant intruded for a good feed:
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Ryl Albatross
NZ Dept of Conservation Facebook:
Golly gosh, the wonderful Albatross calm after the bull in a china shop cock pheasant
A lot of hard work there Scylla, very many thank yous. Great to see the otter again.
Loch of the Lowes
14 Feb
I was hoping this was a female Blackbird (after trying to pick CIRRUS's brains over the ether without her knowing)... but the throat, or what we can see of it, looks rather white and speckly ??? The voice doesn't seem scratchy enough for Mistle Thrush...
Pity we couldn't see the chest clearly Scylla, am gonna throw Redwing & Fieldfare into the mix (courtesy of BTO)
scylla said:
Yes you are correct Scylla, female blackbird, they have that throaty cluck cluck noise.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
WendyBartter said:am gonna throw Redwing & Fieldfare into the mix
Thank you sincerely for taking the trouble, WENDY I wouldn't have considered either of those because I've never (consciously) seen them (except occasionally in BirdGuides Photo of the Week), you know what a limited palette I have
Lynn L said:female blackbird, they have that throaty cluck cluck noise.
That was what tipped the scales in spite of the throat appearance, I listened to several videos.
The Otter's icy pool gets refreshed and the Otter enjoyed trying to drink from the refilling hose:
Re the BB on LoTL nest - Absolutely Scylla The gentle call was (excuse me) obvious and as she turned her feathers were certainly brown and not black - some feathers at times seem darker than others. I often have to look twice and BBs foraging for sultanas on my lawn (I still have 7 who visit and two are female)