Hi all: Here's to a problem-free week on the site. Check out the last week's final page or so for updates from everyone, including one from Maureen (HillaryH) who's back with us after a hospital stay due to a chest infection and wants directions to Google Earth. Maureen - assume you downloaded GE before? If not, just go to http://earth.google.com/ and click on the Download Google Earth 5 button at right. I can't remember right now how to load Rothes and Mallachie's route; perhaps someone else will let you know if you need additional info. Glad you're back!
Alan posted a hummingbird link (http://vimeo.com/hummingbirds#8409299) for those who missed it and the week's chat ended with a long post from OG, who'd been composing it for days but was unable to get it on the site due to the techy problems! And no OG, haven't attempted the printer-wireless problem yet; can only handle one techy problem at week it seems!!
Have a nice Sunday all. Let's see if this posts
Afternoon everyone
Bitterly cold here and the sun is shining on the lying snow, but not enough to thaw it. I may venture out this afternoon on a shopping mission as the weather for the rest of the week is forecast to be heavy snow :(((
Thanks for all the links and pics ... I could spend all day on here following everything up!
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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Everyone be careful and stay warm in the bad weather this week!
Gary: My PBS stations are re-showing "White Falcon, White Wolf" several times over the next few days, so you should be able to catch the program. I noticed comments from people in the UK on the link that Annette provided. So I think you all should be able to see it, too, at some point.
Unknown said: Everyone be careful and stay warm in the bad weather this week! Gary: My PBS stations are re-showing "White Falcon, White Wolf" several times over the next few days, so you should be able to catch the program. I noticed comments from people in the UK on the link that Annette provided. So I think you all should be able to see it, too, at some point.
Diana I can see that you have an interest in great horned owls. I think that some appeared on the Blackwater osprey cam yesterday.
I have also been wondering how GHO's get it together?
Are you a member of Hancock Wildlife?
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Afternoon everyone. The festivities are almost finished here after three days of first-footing and New Year partys! Looking forward to getting back to "normal" with the return to work tomorrow and school for my daughters later in the week. Its still very cold here but there has been a thaw since the heavy snow we had on Saturday night and, yes, the councils in Scotland are definitely running short of salt. Our grit boxes are full of sand with hardly any salt mixed in. I may undertake an unscheduled shopping mission later this afternoon to top up the supplies in case we find ourselves gripped by even more snow over the next few days. Seems relentless. Hasn't this website been temperamental these past few days. Probably weather related - there must be very deep snow in LG just now. Does anyone know when Richard or the team will give us our first update on Rothes for 2010? Today or tomorrow perhaps? Hope everyone with winter is keeping as safe and as warm as possible.
AQ Not a fan of Cadburys either. Like you i prefer Lindt, or Milka and Galaxy.
OG Glad to hear son is safe and sound albeit after a much longer journey than usual.
ANNETTE Remember meeting a German who was cycling round Scotland including what he pronounced as The He Brides, we had to laugh, but of course his English was excellent compared to my schoolgirl German. He was doing the journey in winter and had cycled through a very wintery Drumochter the previous so he was very hardy indeed.
Good afternoon DjoanS have just been catching up with last week's chat but was pleased to see you are feeling better. I seem to have a couple of good days and then feel really under the weather again, can't seem to get rid of the awful cough which always starts up as soon as my head hits the pillow at night.
Maureen sorry to read you have not been well again and glad you feel a bit better now. Lots of hugs and kisses to you.
Have lived on the South Coast for over 20 years but have never known it so cold. We have not had snow yet but the frosts are so hard and where the sun doesn't reach it stays frosty all day. Have spent a good part of the morning defrosting the bird baths. Managed to do it eventually and it was worth it as all the sparrows came and had a bath. I am that daft I filled it again with luke warm water so at least it wasn't freezing for them. A poor wood pigeon hit our kitchen window yesterday afternoon. We went out and he was very dazed to say the least so we put him in a box without the lid and covered him up with a small blanket for a while. He seemed to come round then so we took him out into the front garden and let him go. Went back and checked after 10 minutes and he had gone so it would seem he got away with and flew away. I get so upset when the birds do this, floods of tears but when they survive it cheers me up again. All the garden birds are back now feeding like mad so I am filling up the feeders twice a day at least. What always amazes me is that when it is just beginning to get light they are singing away as though everything was normal. They really are resilient.
Thanks to all for the various links and photographs always much appreciated.
Alan thanks for the links to the humming bird egg laying. Pheobe certainly is one busy little bird. Hope you had a safe trip out on your shopping expedition today.
original goldfinch pleased your son got home safely. I was worried about my OH this morning as it would appear they are not gritting some of the roads until there have a been some accidents. The A338 was shut twice over the weekend because of black ice and they then shut if both ways and gritted. I can't think for the life of me why it wasn't done before.
Auntie temperature wise we are catching up with you but I expect you are used to it. I am certainly not and feel so lethargic when it so cold and do want to go out. the furthest I go is the garden and that is just to keep the birds well fed and watered.
To all take care and keep warm.
Margobird
Forgot to say auntie I just love this picture. and it is hard to believe that ospreys will be there soon.
Emma Peel I too hope we will hear from Richard or one of his team soon about Rothes and maybe Mallachie.
HI BRENDA H Heard the people in the pub weren,t too dischuffed at being there for 3 nights (until the beer runs out?) Haven't heard if they have got out yet. Think it is the highest pub in England, but still this must be a first for them!!!