Spying on the birds.....

hedgehugger · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Karma :

Nesting season is here again.

Peregrines and Ospreys (when they return)

https://www.dyfiospreyproject.com/live-streaming

https://www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org/peregrine-cam

https://hawkandowltrust.org/index.php/web-cam-live/bath-1

https://hawkandowltrust.org/web-cam-live/norwich-oh

https://peregrine.group.shef.ac.uk/

I watch these every year and a few others occasionally.

There can be some real drama at times. The Norwich one a few years ago had a new female chase the resident one from the nest, she totally disappeared and the male brought all the babies up successfully, the new female promptly killed all the the young when they were fledging and moved in! Proper dramatics. Murder and violence, as well as cute, fluffy, helpless things.

Maybe something to take up a few minutes of your day while you're bored shitless!
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Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

I take it that the bath one is on the abbey?
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hedgehugger · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Karma :

It's St John's Church.
We always go and have a nosy when we are in Bath.

pepperami · Super Spammer Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Karma :

I must admit to spending more time watching our bird feeder lately.
Not quite the same but it keeps me amused for a while.

I’m happy to say that the House Sparrow and the Hedge Sparrow seems to be on the up this year. Thumbs Up

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hedgehugger · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Karma :

Peregrines @ Bath and Norwich have hatched.

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Mrs stinkwheel and I sat and watched a newly fledged osprey robbing pigeon squabs from the nest while we were canoeing on the Dumfriesshire Dee a couple of years back. There was an almighty hulabaloo as it ineptly forced its way in and out of the tree branches with the adult pigeons harrassing it.

The interesting thing was when we recounted the story to the RSPB guy at the "official" osprey observatory near Keswick. He point blank told us we were wrong and that ospreys eat fish and nothing but fish and that it must have been some other sort of bird we'd seen Rolling Eyes

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Well, I'm afraid ospreys are pretty distinctive and this one clearly hadn't read the book. They can and do eat pigeon squab if it looks easier to get than fish.
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martin734 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 28 Aug 2019 Karma :

I have been watching the Osprey near me. I hope the male returns this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTIe41ZvtS4
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bhinso · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Karma :

Based on the title, this isn't the thread I was anticipating Sad

pepperami · Super Spammer Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Karma :

No Ospreys that I know of around here.
However we have got a decent number of Buzzards.

We’ve had all sorts of mixed bird life on our feeder lately.
Ironically we haven’t seen a Sparrowhawk for a couple of years now.
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martin734 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 28 Aug 2019 Karma :

Bournemouth Peregrines
https://www.bournemouthperegrines.org.uk/
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