Hobby On Old Saker Cam

[melv16]

http://mavir.hu/web/mavir/feszekmegfigyeles

[woofgang]

Hawk Roosting

Ted Hughes

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.

My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot

Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -

The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:

The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.

[Tilly2]

Lovely poem, Woof. Thanks for that.

I like this bit:-

There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -

[Tilly2]

Just watched her lay the first egg! How exciting.

[Tilly2]

Dad's just turned up to have a look.

[ladybirder]

Looks like she's laying another now Tilly?

[Tilly2]

I don't know how much time there is between eggs, LB. She was standing up when she laid the one about ten minutes ago. I think she's incubating at the moment. She settled down nicely on to it.

[Tilly2]

You might be correct, LB. She looks a bit uncomfortable.

[Tilly2]

Egg two!

[ladybirder]

When I watched her a few minutes ago she stood up in the corner, over the egg, with her back end high in the air so ...?

[Tilly2]

Melv is missing all the action, LB. :-)

[ladybirder]

Preening now so not sure what's going on. Not go rid of that old egg I see.

[Tilly2]

Having looked it up, it would seem that Hobbies lay eggs one day at a time. So, I was mistaken about the second egg. Obviously, she is now brooding the first one.

That other egg will stay where it is, I suppose. I do wonder if the new Hobby chicks will be ringed. The parent's aren't.

[melv16]

:-( story of my life. Good news on the egg laying. I don't think you'll get a better view of a hobbys nest, as they usually breed in other birds nests

[Tilly2]

Good evening, Melv. You missed a treat.

[melv16]

Don't rub it in, Tilly:-) I was busy watching a web cast about gardening with wildlife in mind.

[Tilly2]

Verbena.

[melv16]

It was concentrating on pollinating insects, mainly bees and how to attract them. I'm ticking a lot of boxes ont allotment, with over 50 cornflowers and other wild flowers, including my wildlife pond.

[melv16]

Any more eggs?

[Tilly2]

From the blog underneath the video.

03/07/2020. 7:49
Although the kaba hen was around the nesting box yesterday, the couple did not sleep inside the nest. The hatching started yesterday morning, the result of which, the first pocket egg is already visible!




Laying of eggs is expected to continue, the litter can be expanded by up to 3-4 eggs. In recent years, this pair has spent several times in this artificial nest: one time three kaba chicks flew out, the other year only one, as the breeding was threatened by the constant clashes with the red bloodsuckers, from which the jackets eventually emerged victorious. Like the squirrels, for the most part the hen will hatch, but she will be replaced by the male at intervals, while the hen will move her muscles in a short flight.
In the case of falcons, the similarity is so great that they can only be distinguished from each other by their size (the hen is slightly larger than the male).

I wonder what the 'red bloodsuckers' are?

[melv16]

Your guess is as good as mine, Tilly:-)
Red footed falcon? Red kite?