Link to July 2023 thread
July proved to be a less nail-biting month than June. Brodie re-appeared early on the 1st and delivered fish (including flounder) to the nest every day bar 1 thereafter, with a record count of 7 on the 21st. Asha also fished and delivered a salmon on the 3rd, as well as quite a few sticks, not least one to replace the sticky-up stick on the nest that got removed on ringing day - 12th July. We have 2 boys, as only 7% of those surveyed had predicted. 2C5 (oldest) became Sid (Vicious) and 2C4 (youngest) is Harry (Nilsson). We had some cracking snaps particularly from the PTZ camera, a 2am fish, self-feeding started, and wing-flapping and helicoptering. Bets are on for a fledge or two very early in August. Sid is 58 days and Harry 56 days on the 1st of August
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20.01 2C5 is off again for a quick fly-round
20.03 2C5 off again, back at 20.42, sadly not with a fish!
No fish since 10.09am
20.44 Asha leaves her perch, maybe to go fishing
Can’t resist posting these two stills of Sid’s feet as he fledged, and then after he landed on his perch, in a beautiful cam closeup. It made me laugh to see him slightly dazed and looking around like he had no idea what just happened!
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21.19 fish!! The snap I took after Brodie left is marginally better than the one I took when he brought it in. Still not great but.....a bit of a tiddler. 2C5 came back for a feed
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Unknown said:21.19 fish!! The snap I took after Brodie left is marginally better than the one I took when he brought it in. Still not great but.....a bit of a tiddler.
I could not get a decent snap of that fish, it blurred on the way in on the nest cam, and was so distant on the PTZ.
There are lots of things I could catch up on, especially 2C5's "travels", but I thought this was the most important, in the present circs of lateness and discombobulationness:
Canuck wrote the following post at 1 Aug 2023 6:44 PM:
18:25:54 2C4 goes WAY UP in the air over the nest and then lands back down. On the PTZ cam. On the regular cam he disappears from view. I thought for a moment that he had fledged. But then he came back down.
Not quite as high as Sid's first one on the 29th, I wonder if Harry will progress faster from now on?
02 August
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