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
Margobird : Thanks for the new blog info.
Tiger : Thats the link I have been watching Phoebe on and also watched the previous chcks fledge. This is the first eggs to fledge I have watched.
Here is a clip of Phoebe laying her second egg:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/Pungh0Li0/videos/37/
Happy Tuesday!
I can't believe how much snow, ice and foul weather all you folks are dealing with and being right positive about it too. (I would be complaining like mad!) Please everyone be careful and stay safe. If I could send snow plows and road salt over to help I most certainly would do that.
I'm off for the day so please be well and warm, everyone.
Thanks Alan such a lovely little bird and what a magnificent nest. Loved the way she got the eggs in the right place before she started brooding them.
I did manage to clear the bird baths as the temperature rose a bit this morning and the frost just about went. The bad new is that is now raining/sleeting and is probably going to freeze over making everywhere very dangerous. I think it will turn to snow evenutally as it is getting very dark and not quite 3.00 yet.
Margobird
Margobird : I also managed to clear birdbath as the temperature rose a bit. Still quite bright here at the moment but I expect it will freeze later. Amount of snow we are going to get is uncertain. I have cleared driveway and garden paths quite easily today.
Hello, folks. I've been reading but not posting for the last few days. We've had several lots of snow - not great amounts in my part of NI but what lands freezes! Yesterday evening, with snow forecast, I put my car up our narrow, steep drive - only a few inches clearance on either side. Promised snow arrived and now I daren't take the car out as I'd never get it back up! May have to walk to the nearest shop if stocks run too low. My dogs are anxious to go for a walk but they will have to wait for an improvement in the weather. Yesterday I managed to get them out 2 at a time to our local country park. Fine in the frost in the morning but managed to slip and fall in the afternoon while going uphill on an earth path where the top surface had thawed in the sunshine but underneath was still frozen. I felt very foolish as every effort to get up from my semi-sitting position rresulted in another slip! Hope the young couple I had just passed didn't see me! Nothing hurt but my pride. Please all take great care - the weather on 'the mainland' looks horrendous.
patriciat sorry about your fall I know what you mean about pride but glad you didn''t hurt yourself but do take care. The way things are going we will all have to learn to ski. Take care.
Morning all: Gosh. Lots of catch up to do! Daughter had her surgery yesterday morning with no complications and none anticipated; she'll be released in the next couple of days to our house, so the pace wiil settle down. Hospital 1-1/2 hours from my house, so yesterday was a tad exhausting. Granddaughter arrived from Arizona on Saturday evening to take care of the horses. Brought huge black and much beloved old dog, Thunder (formerly my daughter's dog who was raised with Lightning, fat white pussy who now lives at our house). Oddly enough, cat was a bit apprehensive but sat inside the house, hidden behind the potted plants outside the patio door, and didn't flinch when Thunder peered at her through the glass (he stayed in the garden during the day, but came inside 'coz he's old and arthriticky). . Maybe a memory there.... In the meantime, daughter's current dog, Oro, large, young, and boisterous, is staying in his own "apartment" at the local humane society, with access to the outside and lots of doggy companions to bark at. I'm going to visit him today and maybe take him for a walk in that neighborhood. We also now have a guest hampster at our house, who is incredibly sweet and tiny. Sounds like the weather has been awful for many folks. :-( Seems like the RSPB folks may have sorted out the site problem.
Brenda: Thanks for link to stuck-in-a-pub story. Well, if you have to be stuck somewhere.....
OG: We will take decorations down tomorrow, probably along with group of hard-core neighbors who still have them up. Wonder where that lady who went out for the turkey started her trip. Osprey on hummingbird nest? :-)
dibnlib: He Brides eh? English is a terrible language to learn, what with its confusing and contrary spelling and pronunciation. I always admire people, especially those with different alphabets, who can speak it.
Auntie: Lovely photo - we had a Yellowstone special before Christmas called 'Winter in Yellowstone."
Margobird: Thanks for alert on new blog. Coughs that start up at night are the worst. I had a persistent tickley cough recently and got some over-the-counter stuff (generic for Robitussin DM) that stopped it in its tracks. You're very good to your feathered friends!
George: Hotel chocolate club sounds very civilized.
Emma: Sounds like you spent the last two or three weeks partying! :-)
Caerann: Have you read "The Mansion on the HIll" which is all about the early days of the 60s--era rock groups. Also, "Last Train to Memphis" is fascinating bio of Elvis Presley. Did not know about hummingbird's ability to see red; amazing. No wonder all the feeders are red. Thanks for photos!
Alan: What did Antiques Roadshow have to say about Lady P painting? Watched it here last night (from Raleigh, North Carolina) where lady had some jewelry her grandparents (I think) brought to the States when they emigrated - turned out to be incredibly valuable at between $700,000 - $1 million. Had me wondering about all that stuff we have in the garage (not really). Thanks for link to Phoebe's second egg-laying event!
Off to let in cat and make sure she doesn't get too curious about guest Hampster (called Shadow). Take care all.
I'm popping back in, & glad I did as there has been an update on the LG Blog. Good news that the fund for the electricity supply there is growing.
Its snowing again here, has been for a couple of hours, undoing all the good work of Husband who had cleared our paths & those of aged Neighbour - all the cars in the street now look like white jelly moulds & could be any make or colour, they look the same! We have gas cent. heating & are very glad of it, as hope there will be no break in supply.
Keep safe, All. Hope you feel better soon, Margobird.
Barn owl cam with 2 eggs laid:
http://www.starrranch.org/blog/?page_id=2