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CarnyxWild (run by Peter Dobson, who covered Loch Garten Ospreys for so many years and still does Clywedog and has a number of interesting cams including sea birds)... have recently set up this cam somewhere in Arabia. I shouldn't be covering this on a daily basis, but we'll see how disciplined I can be.
The Sooty Falcon's features are similar to those of a Peregrine but not the plumage. I see that the wiki compares it more to a Hobby. Some of the vocals are much trillier and chirpier than Peregrines', IMHO.
26 August
Adjusting the cam, with parents protesting in the background:
01 Sep
Breakfast - only a few feathers drifting as evidence, until Mama takes it into the scrape - but it's rather dark in there:
04 September
A preen right up to the cam, but out of focus:
07 September
Bits 'n pieces:
IMAGICAT
I've been wondering why there's only one eyas - well, I happened to check the Chat today and someone asked the question and was told that one had been predated on 01 September... and Peter Dobson of Carnyx archives his live streams so I was able to go back and find it and record it.
Long, I hadn't the heart to cut it - and Mama was very interesting, looking totally incompetent but in fact digging a little dip so that the surviving eyas could roll over more easily.
BTW - I thought at first that the predator was a Pied Wagtail but found out that it was a Great Grey Shrike.
01 September
Such a very sad happening
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
09-10 September - some "highlights"
16 September
I thought they might be going to ring the eyas (it's going to get a red ring, I believe) when this disturbance caught my eye - but it was an adult bouncing on the cam wiring. A little later, Dad brought a meal.
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Back to the 13th - the Great Grey Shrike was on 'n out - coulda got caught one time but wasn't!
Afternoon/evening - hunky-dory:
Eyas sees off Shrike:
RINGING - but not shown on cam - followed by afternoon tea, all is well:
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20 September
The eyas wandered way out to our left this morning, Mum & Dad still have it covered:
21 September
The eyas has been pottering, both parents have perched atop the "nest", no-one in sight at the mo.
Early this morning an unseen bird performed a dawn solo (as opposed to chorus, altho I suspected a to-and-fro occasionally) - ID please? I wondered about a variety of cuckoo but have no idea how varied cuckoo calls can be.
EDIT
I managed to play it to Merlin and change the location to Red Sea - Merlin came up with Eurasian Curlew as its only suggestion, and I thought that was similar, if not exactly the same. Anyone else have a go?
Whether that is right or wrong, I'm so puffed up because I got Merlin to do something... anything... on my smartphone !!!
23 September
Eyas is coming along well, with both parents very attentive.
The mornings are too shady to get a detailed view:
A shortie showing breast pattern of eyas:
In the evening it found a leftover and stuck with it rather than accepting Mama's fresh prey:
I don't think it will be many days before we see the first flight.
23 September - just before midnight, who scuttled along?
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24 September
Ankle-biter:
Very lively mid-afternoon meal:
Huppp !!!