Hi All
I just changed cam 2 over to a nest box. A pair of Blue Tits are working hard building their nest. I do hope you don’t mind the change from the osprey cam.
Peter
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The second cam on the eyrie was useful when cam 1 went down BUT still like idea of you swapping over to blue tits.
Its not just the big birds that are interesting, and am looking forward to seeing how something at the other end of the size scale goes about building their nest and bringing up their chicks (and comparing it to the osprey).
Lovely to see the blue tits nest on your cam 2. Having said that, would it be fairly easy to swap back to the osprey nest, should cam 1 ‘go on the blink’ again? Couldn’t bear to lose those marvellous pictures each day, especially this year, without ‘Mabel’s regular mate, Eric.
Hi Rosemary
It is only a matter of pressing two buttons to change it back to the ospreys, but lets hope the main osprey cam does not go out again. We have all spent a lot of time and money getting it back up and running this year.
Fingers, toes and legs crossed!!
Peter
not at all peter. Its not all about the ospreys
I actually look forward to hearing the blue or great tits savaging the mic cover for nesting material. Its probably expensive material but its blooming hilarious lol
Absolutely not Peter, it is wonderful to watch all the birdies large and tiny. With the excellent camera work on Cam 1 it’s not as if we really ever miss much anyway. Cam 2 is just a very much appreciated added bonus and while our Ospreys are more or less just quietly ’settling in’ and then egg laying seems a good time to make alternative use of it.
I love the osprey cam, the pitiful nagging for fish is nice to hear too. I am in San Francisco and rarely see a live osprey.
However, I would like to see the Blue Tits in action too.
Would it be possible to have two cams, or is that just plain greedy?
there are 2 cams
there’s the osprey one and the nest one.
I to love the osprey cam, but love watching the blue tits as well. Thanks for showing us this to.
Hi again
Would it be possible to find out when and where and who put the green leg ring on the 7Y osprey? It would be interesting to know whether this is his second visit to Scotland/Wales. Judging by his inexperience in his dealings with Mabel (LOTL osprey), makes me think that this could only be his second time, bearing in mind that he has got the ring on his leg, which I suppose would have been attached in the UK?
he was rung in july 2000 by someone who posts on here. No one has said if they knew of another nest but as he is ten years old this is not his first migration. Oor Marge is the lucky woman this year to have him as a partner – or at least we hope.
I enjoy watching the other action, as well. I have enjoyed seeing a large woodpecker on Cam 2, and I think a pheasant hen or female guinea fowl up on the feeder! The little birds are harder to follow as they dart in and out but it’s lovely to see all the activity, and I also love seeing the red squirrel(s). I hope you continue to keep the centre open all year as I hope to return to Dunkeld in November and it is so nice to watch the bird feeders from inside the centre.
marjorie the peahen was on the feeder when i was there 2 weeks ago. She chased the little red squirrel into the box and all your could see was his little eyes peering out. Was very funny. Seen 2 woodpeckers on the feeders at the same time too. You.ll enjoy your visit in november. I heard a rumour that during the winter a white tailed sea eagle landed briefly on the nest. Now thats another sight i’d love to see.
Oh I would love to see a sea eagle landing on the nest!
I am homesick for Dunkeld although I am just a tourist. I have visited every November for 10 years now. When the cam panned around to the surrounding hills and the golf course yesterday, I could see the path I take to get walk from Dunkeld to the Loch! So beautiful.
its a pity you don’t come 2 or 3 months earlier. You.re right about dunkeld though. In my vision of heaven its loch of the lowes i see. Its so beautiful. Are you from the you UK? Why don’t you join the forum i belong to. Lots of osprey nutters lol. Its THE BIRD FORUM – BIRDS OF PREY – LOCH OF THE LOWES. You.ll be more than welcome
. Ann.
it wasn’t a peahen it was a female pheasant lol. Blonde moment.
Thanks for the invite, Ann. I will check out the forum when I can. I live in Vancouver, Washington State USA, which is just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. I have Anna’s hummingbirds year-round at my feeders at home, and also jays (a family of scrub jays who raise chicks each year), and a couple of mourning doves, and lots and lots of finches. Currently the finches are gorgeous– brilliant yellow goldfinches and nicely rosy purple finches. But I do love to check in on Dunkeld and the osprey and the red squirrels, and I am hoping to see a pine marten!
I keep thinking I should come to Scotland earlier in the year, but it takes me a year to save up to visit again, and also I like to attend the Scots Fiddle Festival in your town of Edinburgh. This year it’s November 12-13-14.
There is a Niel Gow Festival right in Dunkeld each March but that would be too early for the osprey, I think…
Cheers, Marjorie
I feel such a dolt. I have been enjoying the feeder cam for a while now. I have even seen a pine marten on it, as well as red squirrels. Found the blue tits too.
Peter /team,
Thanks for position of webcam 2 this morning (0810 12th) – getting in closer to eyrie while still including enough of the area around and behind it to see either bird flying in/out.
I know this is probably pushing it, but is there any way the site can be set up so that we can swap from one web camera to another more quickly?
Say if you are on #2 at the moment and you see bird fly in, by the time youve clicked on “Webcam 1″ and gone thru the sequence that includes the main menu, then chances are youve missed valuable seconds on the eyrie.
Can it be done so once weve clicked on “Webcam 1″ we are straight into that webcam’s home page?
PS: theres always the possibility you can already do this but I havent found out how!
Thanks for your continued excellent photography (and for the thought that must go into how you decide what to put on our screens)
why don’t you just run two browsers or pages at the same time. Thats what i do. Firefox and IE.
Unfortunately Ospreys have to share my computer!
I really enjoy following the Ospreys through the season, but it is also good to be able to follow other birds/animals as well, very interested in your Blue Tits just starting to build nest as down in Hertfordshire in my camera box we had 1st egg this morning,but then we are alot further south.
I enjoy watching your Osprey web cam, but it is also good to see other bird/animal web cams as well, I was very interested to see your Blue Tit just starting to build nest, where as down here in Hertfordshire we had 1st this morning in my camera box.
Hi fellow osprey lovers (and blue tits too!)
The easiest way to look at both the cams at once is to open each cam in a seperate tab in one browser – you can do this easily with Firefox for instance. You can have the tabs next to each other and can click back and fowards quickly. Also if you bookmark the page for each cam you can load them up much more quickly than by going to the main menu all the time. Hope this helps your viewing pleasure
Lovely to see the bluetits hard at work with the nest, looking quite luxurious now.