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
I gather the road to Campbeltown in the south-west is damaged in several places. We came past that turning on our way to Mull earlier this year - it's a beautiful part of Scotland.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Unfortunately the VC doesn't view from our position and they don't understand that there's too close and too far - and at the mo we're far too far, particularly for our Stonestarts who visited this morning
IMAGICAT
Two ravens a hawk and an egg gone.
16:36 onwards today.
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mccann said:16:36 onwards today.
Oh what a drag! I discontinued the nest cam because of all the fragments. Maybe I can get some of it from rollback a bit later... but obviously mustn't leave it too long !!!
EDIT - I'm so annoyed with myself that I forgot to congrat and thank you, TREVOR
mccann said:16:36 onwards today
This is the nest cam recorded from rollback at normal speed, just a short clip so you can see - watch the seconds rush by!
It's going to make it (too?) difficult to put sound on the PTZ view.
scylla said:It's going to make it (too?) difficult to put sound on the PTZ view
Yes it was too difficult - and then I did the video and forgot to upload it - but here it is now.
There are several unannounced slomo bits where the hawk flashed by.
What a Superb video Scylla I will post a few still's of the Hawk encounter