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The Lock of the Lowe’s Osprey Diary reported that the last born chick had died last night. For a few days, a number of those using our Forum, could see that it was struggling to get the food that it needed. The Manager of the Centre told me that nearly every year, all the chicks […]
Lady and the Foal will be at the Stud for about another week. She was unable to be mated on this cycle. I do not want her to be at the Stud any longer than necessary, so she will be induced to cycle early, in a day or so. I had a phone call from […]
Our first Swallows nest that was abandoned a few weeks ago, has now got residents. I saw the Swallows were going in the barn, that is being converted, On investigating I found that there were eggs in the nest. I wasn’t able to count them as the adult birds were causing a bit of a […]
If the rain had not stopped in the night, the outcome of the Swallow Chicks could well have been a little different. The adults Swallows have been working hard feeding the chicks all day. Late this afternoon we started to get some quite heavy showers. I can still see that the chicks are being fed […]
I have turned the lights off in the barn that the Swallows chicks are in. Hopefully it will stop them expecting food every time they hear a noise and calm them down. The light now showing the nest is an IR lamp. The light is timed and will go out in about forty minutes. I […]
After seeing the posting on the forum about the Blue Tit nest, I phoned the Centre Manager at the Lock of the Lowes site. After the call, he confirmed that the Blue Tits chicks were dead. He had checked the nest earlier, although he had not seen the adult, the chick were alive. He was […]
The Buzzard knows that it has a good chance of a meal by the Bird feeders. The Birds when feeding on the feeders always drop some of the seeds onto the ground. There always seems to be a Pheasant in the area and they mop up some of the seed. But it is also a […]
As I thought it may, the Buzzard returned this evening, landing on the Bird Feeders ready to swoop on an unsuspecting Rabbit. The way that it flew down shortly after landing, it could well have caught one. That particular feeder is a good vantage point to face the camera. You can regularly see Rabbit and […]
This morning when I went to fill the bird feeders, I startled the Buzzard that had been perched on the feeders last evening. It was in the orchard close to the feeders, eating a freshly caught young Rabbit. The feeders are a good vantage position to swoop on Rabbits, that have many warrens in the […]
Sorry that the Osprey web cam has not been working for most of the day. The worse part about it was that at 12.30am in the morning the second egg hatched. I had checked at about 12.15am, before I went to bed, that all the cameras were working, it was working fine then. I must […]