New male who I've named Colin gave us a miss over Xmas & New Year's day so was very pleased to see him this afternoon, giving me a reason to start new thread in the hope there's some romance this year!
Grim & grey day here so light was bad for pics @ almost 15.00
Resolution in vid was a great improvement ... he looks almost too pretty to be a boy!! Trademark ending though ... start as you mean to go on!
2013 photos & vids here
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I only did a slideshow for yesterday, being a bit pushed ;) The light/focus wasn't terribly good all day.
IMAGICAT
Tuesday 26th
Plenty to eat.
And MrsK didn't feel the need to brood the eyases every non-eating minute:
Wednesday 27th
Not nearly as much brooding, and at 04:30 she was outside having a look around:
To be continued...
We now have a camera on the outside of the barn. Mum will likely want to spend more time away from the kids!... But remain on guard.
https://www.carnyx.tv/LiveCameras/WildlifeCameras/YorkshireDales.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuy1ZyXR9q0
That's a great view, thanks guys!
As we still have 5 heads, I'm going to delete the 27th and 28th - I'm not able to keep up with all the nests.
Some prey-drops:
They are constantly harassed, here was a corvid bouncing off the entrance:
This owl (no idea what type) was perched on the wall for much longer than I've shown. What a surprise it got! I can't find it on the inside view, and in any case I think MrsK would have been blocking the view.
EDIT - Found the inside view.
The episode started @ 00:15 when MrsK dashed back into the depths when something frightened her, it just shows as a feathery scrap in the outside vid... she stood over the eyases and then darted to the entrance when the owl landed.
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An hour and a half earlier someone had been perched on the cam:
There are lots of cubby-holes in the wall providing shelter at the very least.
(From the previous daytime.)
This bird came out of one further along:
There's at least a pair using it:
This was a corvid attack, it's turning away at the last split second: