A very happy New Year to the lovely peregrines as well as Cilla and Scott! Diamond is on the ledge:
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
scylla said: I had no daycam this (Oz) morning until 0813hr !!! Refresher must have stopped working :'(
I had no daycam this (Oz) morning until 0813hr !!! Refresher must have stopped working :'(
That was the nest cam - the ledge came up @ 0614 to find Xavier waiting with prey, but he took it away - only to return 10 minutes later and deliver it (slightly the worse for wear) to the chicks, at which point the cam went down again.
Another @ 0835hr
IMAGICAT
"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
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I can't do any more videos unless/until the cams improve, can't cope with all the mini-freezes.
3m23s SLIDESHOW
Portrait - don't you dare say the colours don't match, this took me owers !!! and they're still not right >:(
"You in your small corner, and I in mine" :-* (But the one in the far corner wouldn't show its face.)
Breakfast around 630hr Oz time - both ate, but at one stage...
Your special framed pic is superb Scylla, well worth all your Herculean labours!
Phew! Got it right this time!
2013 photos & vids here
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Another breakfast an hour later.
That's no good!
The other's got the idea:
That's better, dear :)
At lunchtime Xavier flew in empty-taloned (I saw him on the ledge cam too), he was soon joined by Diamond and they poked about as if for food but nothing found.
Chicks looking hungry:
Tipped over looking in the stash area?
Parents left.