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All pictures and videos courtesy of Wildlife Windows and Dorset Raptor Study Group
2023 THREAD
*** 2024 CAM ***
QUOTE per ©️WildlifeWindows-DRSG
The adult male is the same male (he is ringed) but we think the female is a new bird as she doesn’t have the aberrant white feather on her head which has been present in previous years.
3 eggs have been laid which is a normal clutch size for hobbies.
Egg 1, 2nd June 6:47 pm
Egg 2, 5th June 6:46 am (60 hours)
Egg 3, 7th June 8:04 pm (61.25 hours)
Hatching should start approx. end of the first week in July
Hasty snaps to start us off:
THREE eggs:
Mama:
This season the cam has been enhanced with nighttime IR, hooray!
Mama tucked for the night:
IMAGICAT
Thank you Scylla, let us hope for success this season
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
If we can not have the same trauma as the other year that will be a good thing
Cin J
These 2 are too quick for ID portraits! Needless to say, I can't tell the difference unless they stand side-by-side, if he's not showing his anklet
.I collaged her because of the sun. WildlifeWindows think she is new this season as she doesn't have a white feather somewhere.
The male, they are pretty sure is the same as last season:
02 July
Not long after midnight, something woke up MrsHobby - I couldn't hear much besides a couple of slight pops, then fluttering that might have been the cam system :-/
It was a wet 'n windy night but a dry day: