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.
None of your posts are ever wasted, Scylla! Thanks for all your hard work and thanks to Everyone who posts!
Kind regards, Ann
Hi Scylla I got your Text will ring you later just glad to be out of hosp even if I had to sign my self out.
"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
Magnus Ullman
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God I have missed watching them. how big they have got.
Glad to see you back, LIMPY!
A little while ago - Diamond and Bali:
IMAGICAT
Well done, Bali! It broke into two strings :)
Breakfast @ 0606hr courtesy of nest cam and Xavier. Can you ID the victim?
One showed great interest, the other not so much:
The footage was already juddering and it completely froze @ 0612hr.
Poppet!
Another meal, again only one showing interest:
I don't think the other ever did join in, but the footage jerks and not long after this scene it froze:
Xavier popped in for a few seconds and (possibly) checked the old stash area, yacking all the while ;)
Which one?
They each had a scrap (you could see the nearer one's head bobbing as it ate), no idea where from:
Only one eating again:
It turned down a good bite:
And the other one took over:
That feed was plagued by freezes and ended on a permanent freeze. But they both got fed.
That was not long ago, the chicks are now pottering, one at the far and the other at the near wall.
POSTCRIPT
Bali has been wingercising - see flared tail:
And look what s/he found - working on it as I typed @ 0709hr GMT... and a minute later it had been discarded:
Limpy said:
This has been driving me nutz! I don't have it. I can only just read the date/time on my recording because I had an accident, the recording frame slipped down a couple of millimetres and chopped the top off - but I've worked it out that there's a skip from 0847 to 0852.
Please put me out of my misery, LIMPY - did she have her foot in her beak?
I seem to have forgotten to post "Bali casts pellet..." video - sorry if this is a dupe but you'll quite like it:
23s
An early breakfast has commenced :)