After last years monumental year it's nearly time for a new season, so here's the 2023 thread
For the 2022 thread click HERE
Here's hoping for a good year
For viewing the 2 webcams click HERE
Richard B
IMAGICAT
A must-see slide-show
B022 was on 'n off the nest quite often, I didn't notice any intimacy with the female but have scooted thru the footage rather fast, having wasted so much time on trivia.
28 March
Arr just before daycam, stayed a few minutes:
The unringed female was on the nest, kinda fish-calling and flying up out of view and back down again several times, from 06:12 to 06:28...
06:39 Blue022 arrived empty-taloned. Yesterday they moved the timeline to a more eye-friendly position:
He pottered, preened, stood around until 06:50, flew, was back in 2 mins with extremely thin stick, and after arranging it he stood with his back to us till 07:09 when I stopped the download to check thru... all the while someone fish-calling off-stage.
Here she came:
I've just done an 11-second video of them flying off and it's taking months to upload so I'll slot it in later.
EDITING IN MINI-VID
It was his idea to fly, IMO, but it ended up with him seeming to chase after her:
ENS at the mo.
scylla said:
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The turquoise eyes are really striking Scylla!
That wretched oil leak! Oiled birds seen at Poole Harbour:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/28/weve-seen-oiled-birds-fears-for-protected-wetlands-after-poole-harbour-spil
Geemeff said:That wretched oil leak! Oiled birds seen at Poole Harbour:
Ohhhhhh !!! Thank you for that horrible news, GEEMEFF
29 March getgo @ 05:46 but colour needed to be confident on ID.
It flew, and seconds later an Osprey hovered down onto the nest, couldn't tell who it was, anyway they left before daycam.
URF (Unringed Female) first, then 022, each with their own fish:
022's first stick of the day:
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And my downloader has just crashed, first time for a day or two. I've been given advice to check something Windows may have done at the last update, so I'll be offline for a while.
Thank you for this morning's video and Japanese painting Scylla
Dare we hope someone is on top of that piece of very bad news?
My downloader is still on enforced leave but I can see the cam on a small screen - so I was forced to record this from rollback:
Then the campeeps practised zooming (no tarting up of these live snaps!):