OFF-SEASON 2023-24 - FEEDERS & OTHER CRITTER CAMS

Continuing THOMO's LG feeder, and including other cams as per title.

First, some LG feeder snaps & vids from the past couple of days.

Female & male GSWs, joined up by trickery - you may notice that the peanut tube is misshapen Stuck out tongue winking eye

Nasty Great Coal Tit:

No trickery for the 2 Blue Tits:

Now for the torture - I just cannot figure out Greenfinch or female Chaffinch:

This was in flight so has had to be sharpened a lot:

Little vid:

No mistaking the evening Crestie!

  • If you haven't come across this Namib desert live cam, I can recommend it. You never know who's going to drop in for a drink! Tonight in this screenshot it's a black-backed jackal, but you can hear hyenas in the distance.

    https://www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQpim8

  • Many thanks for that link Geemeff, certainly see some different animals on there, currently a small herd of Oryx and chat too!
  • Geemeff said:
    Namib desert live cam

    I used to "do" Africam Verreaux's eagles and that site had watering holes, but not as good as this one!  I'm temporarily downloading it, it's the least I can do in appreciation, Geemeff Stuck out tongue winking eye

    Hyena and Jackal (you'll get nothing more specific from me!)... the Jackal backed off.

    But the closer they get, the fuzzier:

    Got woken up when I did it again !!! GhostGhostGhost

    I was ever so brave and managed to twig the actuality:

    There were 2 of these - I'm only used to seeing huge herds of them being crocked crossing rivers!

    The other cam, the Kalahari waterhole, was manned last night, but it's rather grainy so I didn't extract anything - except this, entitled "Signs of misfortune in the sand":

    Our regular desert - Mojave

    A coyote finished off the fruit salad:

    From one extreme to another - chilly Boreal Ontario, where the Flying Squirrel is still calling in - last night landing with a bang!

    Back to temperate reality - Glaslyn:

    Couldn't get a fuller shot of the squirrel couple:

  • Namib desert

    The flocklets of birds in 'n out should, by the sound of them, be a variety of Babbler - but I don't think they are - anyone know what they are likely to be in this location, behaving like this?

    Jackal in the evening:

  • There is an online chat link on namib desert website so asked the question about bird varieties ...

  • WendyBartter said:
    asked the question about bird varieties

    Typically kind of you, WENDY Hugging   I looked at lists of birds myself but can't narrow it down to the (with a small "b") babblers.

    See this lovely Eland on the Kalahari cam:

    This was among broken shells, quite near to the Gemsbok horns I posted before:

    Mojave

    06 December - Bobcat - may have caught a mouse... or not!

    07 December - This morning's feast:

  • I've stopped downloading the African desert cams - this is left over from the evening/night of the 6th:

  • Some sad news for those of you who knew Quiet Woman , Pat Souter
    I received a card from her daughter Carol telling me that Quiet Woman passed over quietly in her sleep on 20th November . Her funeral was yesterday, so not receiving the card until this morning I was unable to attend actually, gratefully so because of the weather here.
    I met Quite Woman at least a couple of times over the years at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust , Slimbridge. 25 miles from Bristol which is where I live. Please pass the news on to any you feel may like to know

  • Unknown said:
    Some sad news for those of you who knew Quiet Woman

    I remember her from my very early days but didn't get to know her.  Thank you for letting everyone know, CIRRUS Frowning2

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    Positively last snaps from the desert cams:

    Possibly a Scrub Hare:

    Unknown owl had a bathe:

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    Boreal Ontario

    After deep snow was cleared, Tammie set out the seeds in separate piles - and it appeared that the Redpoll had various individual preferences:

  • Thank you Scylla. How very interesting concerning the Redpolls but I'm actually not surprised !

    My teeth , jaw and  internet are still their own individual misery.