Hi everyone. If you didn't check the last few pages of the previous week, it was very busy. I'm going to catch up all the latest posts after dinner.
Annette: You made me laugh about clearing out the garage. It sounded exactly like LadyP and I. We are like 2 goats head butting each other and totally at cross purposes.
O.G.: I too am looking forward to news of both R & M later today. Funnily enough I woke up at 4am this morning and couldnt get back to sleep.
Heron77: I take it you live near Glasgow then? I used to work in Glasgow many years ago. It was in West George Street if I remember it correctly.
Here on TI it is dull,drizzly,dreich,dismal,depressing and the Thunderdog was refusing to emerge from his residence this morning.
In the last 24 hours there have been numerous flocks of geese flying overhead from east to west. This is usually a sign of bad weather to come. I counted 50 in one skein yesterday afternoon and there were more during the night and this morning. Finally some sad news from Northern Ireland re one of the satellite tracked whooper swans:
http://wwt.org.uk/whooper/blog
Unknown said: Here on TI it is dull,drizzly,dreich,dismal,depressing and the Thunderdog was refusing to emerge from his residence this morning. In the last 24 hours there have been numerous flocks of geese flying overhead from east to west. This is usually a sign of bad weather to come. I counted 50 in one skein yesterday afternoon and there were more during the night and this morning. Finally some sad news from Northern Ireland re one of the satellite tracked whooper swans: http://wwt.org.uk/whooper/blog
Driech and drizzly here today - and definitely a mainly blackbird feeding morning - but with two (fighting) robins, two dunnocks, one woodpigeon, one goldfinch and loads of starlings. Gulls overhead too.
Do the geese move over from the East Angian marshes (such as Welney) to Slimbridge etc when the East wind blows? Sad about the whooper in NI - but overall they seem to be doing pretty well.
Did you see Country Tracks yesterday in Northern Ireland - must have been near where PatriciaT stays.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Hooray, the sun is shining at last here. Just looked at 5 day forecast. Getting colder with some sleet or snow in places. Birds galore on the feeders and ground but just one robin, so no fighting here.
Morning all - drizzly and miserable here
OG - sorry you had such a bad start to your day
Plenty of birds on and around the feeders - no fighting there ... but 3 skemmies were having a real ding-dong battle over a tiny puddle of water :))
Had a chuckle when I was shopping earlier - popped into the Co-op and I saw .... haggis slices!!!
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
Index Thread
To: All Loch Garten Osprey group, LG team members past and present.
A very merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Seasonal Greetings!
jsb.
Red squirrel at Abernethy. Credit RSPB.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
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Mornin everyone!
Just a quick weather report: Started very cold, but has thawed out a bit. Don't expect any snow as it doesn't tend to snow (that's if it does actually snow) until well into January or even Febuary. Feeders very busy with sparrows, starlings, collared doves, wood pigeons, dunnocks, jackdaws, blue tits, and a robin. :-)
ALAN PETRIE: You’re right I do live near Glasgow. Well it’s North Lanarkshire by county, Glasgow by postcode, and blink and ye miss it if driving. :-)
DjoanS: Haggis slices are really nice, excellent grilled. :-)
Jsb: That’s a beautiful picture. Thanks for posting. :-)
Paul.
p.s. How do you get the wee smiley faces? I know they come up when you write ":-)" in MS Word but when I copy and past it just comes up as J.
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jsb : A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too. Lang may yer lum reek.
Just took this photo of 4 collared doves in the garden:
Good afternoon Alan have ohly just logged in have spent nearly 5 hours wrapping Christmas presents so a lot to catch up on. Lovely photograpy of the collared doves. I get them in now and again and I just love the colour of them. Very frosty start to the day in Poole but sun has been shining a bit so I am not complaining, just have to put layers of clothes on to keep warm.
Margobird
jsb May I add my best wishes to members of the group and wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
Love the red squirrel and watch the webcam regularly.
Afternoon Margobird, Glad you are keeping warm. It is a horrible day here on TI. Continuous light rain and drizzle and cold with it.
Just waiting for the update on R&M
I was looking at the tracking of the White tailed eagles Junnu and Meri and also Jukka the osprey on the Finnish site and the detail on the plotted positions is far superior to R&M.