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All pictures and videos courtesy of Wildlife Windows and Dorset Raptor Study Group
2023 THREAD
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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
WendyBartter said:combination of awful weather & inexperienced parent maybe??
My thoughts exactly.
WendyBartter said:That nestcup does look too deep & not wide enough for easy access though
I haven't found (not that I've spent very long looking) footage of the very first season, to compare what it was like before the base got built up.
The weather was a bit better today, and at last Mama got around to taking the poor little eyas away - after eating some of it!
15 July
See what I missed! At the very beginning of this video (on the Bird Parenting YT channel ) we can see the egg somehow attached to Mama's underside as she leaves the nest:
.16 July
And see what else I missed,. Again, courtesy of Bird Parenting (Japanese channel owner) - I'm posting the link so's to save you the first few minutes waiting for the action - there's a nice slomo:
https://youtu.be/h2h4wSDL-_A?t=119
16 July
Well, Wendy - see what happened here! Just as well the nest is rather deep!
17 July
Two breakfasts before 09:00: