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Rye Harbour Update: apologies for the failure of the tern and gull web cam, but I am still trying to determine the elusive fault. Anyway the weather has shown some improvement and some of the tern chicks have survived the attacks of the Kestrel and some of the failed terns and gulls have re-nested. So, […]
A couple of footnotes to previous Diary entries. Last night when we were talking to the Fisherman, our relations went on in front and did not hear the stories, that he told about the landslides. I couldn’t resist telling them about what he had told us. No, no one of the relations told us, I […]
Rye Harbour update – It is not good news about the nesting seabirds. The continuing wet, cold and windy weather has taken a great toll on the small fluffy chicks of the terns and the gulls. Feeding has been difficult with stormy seas, so the chicks get hungry and weak and don’t hide when danger […]
Rye Harbour seabirds update – the general survival of the chicks has been good, but the main Black-headed Gull on the webcam has lost a couple of chicks, but that means more for the survivor. The Gull feeds by regurgitating food (insects, worms or fish… and sometimes chips!) whereas the Terns bring in a single […]
At Rye Harbour last night we had a big thunderstorm and lots of rain… and power cuts, so that explains why our webcams went black for a while. I was concerned that the Common Tern chicks might have suffered, but they all look OK this morning. There are 3 types of food being brought in, […]
I really don’t know what has happened to the Swallow chicks. There were three alive last night. This morning I thought that there were three, but had not seen three feed. I went and checked the nest, some of you saw my hand. There were three, but one had died. I later checked again and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Veterinary did not get together today to discuss Woody. They have assured me that they will tomorrow. My understanding from the veterinary was that melanomas can also be inside Horses, that is why it would be a problem for Woody if she does have them. I was fortunate to catch on the Moorhen with […]
First the bad news. The Blackbird chicks got out of the box that their nest was in, earlier today, we managed to find one of them, no sooner than we put it back into the nest it got out. This time we were unable to find it. The chicks were to young to have fledged, […]