Diamond & Xavier have THREE EGGS - laid between 26th and 28th August. Hatching expected to start from 01 October onwards.
New website for Cilla's info.
YT Channel for FOUR live cams.
IMAGICAT
Super movie from Cilla, shot the day before fledging. She says:
One of my shaky hand-held videos - the first showing Indigo from the outside and looking fine and ready to fledge, a quick glimpse of Diamond leaving with prey and later sitting on microwave with Xavier on roof. Lots of birds calls as accompaniment: lorikeets, honeyeaters, gerygones* and whistles and one alarm call from Diamond.
*I thought that might be typo for "greygone" but it's not, silly me for doubting Cilla
For the rest of the 11th, Rubus was fine without Indigo
2013 photos & vids here
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Supper on the Oz 13th - Rubus continues "insecure"
14 November
I don't know if this is Indigo's first return to the scrape, but here s/he is with a very rude intrusion - amounting to smash-n-grab! Fear not, Rubus gets compensation later:
At nightfall (Cilla switched off the IR so's not to encourage the mosquitoes, as far as I can gather, but KATE saw moths referred to a few days ago), Indigo was on the ledge and Rubus in a corner.
EDIT - I am too embarrassed to ask where the scrape is on the Tower - I should be able to find Indigo flying in, I have the time fer goodness' sake, but can't see nowt.
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If it's on the slope, then how did Cilla manage to film Indigo on the ledge from the ground? See? It's not as if I haven't thought about it
scylla said:t's not as if I haven't thought about it
Ha! am sure you have , strange cannot find any pics of construction back in 2007 on top of the water tower.
also Moths or Mossies, either way they are a flying nuisance CHOL:):)
15 November - I don't think that Indigo has left the scrape since his/her first return - s/he certainly spent the night there.
Lunchtime - both eyases active, both parents brought prey, Indigo swapped a substantial meal for a tiny snack so Diamond took advantage:
It's 19:45 in the scrape box - Indigo is prancing around with a prey bird while Rubus is lying down in a corner.
17-19 November Shenanigans: