Thank you for the nestcap, Jan, and the lovely chick photos. No nestcam for me either and I had a little shock at the new Village first page.

I’m glad people liked the macro photos from the link I posted and thanks for your comments.

It has been dull here most of the day but it has brightened up considerably. It is warm though. I am not unhappy for […]

They are lovely, Nick, and the blue grey background sets them off perfectly

I have just been reading June’s Saga magazine and there is an article with David Chambon’s astonishing macro pictures of insects. They look like jewels. I know that Nick and Jacks, to name just two will love them […]

Thank you, Susan. All looked fine on the nest just now with Lady sitting and about pecking at things and chick just shuffling a little but the cam has gone down for me now.

I hate the stretched screen. I […]

Happy birthday, Neil.

Thanks, Susan, for the post and the lovely clip of the chick. How he has grown since we left home on Thursday! It’s lovely here in SW France though a little breeze is blowing up. The […]

Thanks. Off to get ready for bed for an early rise tomorrow.

We are off tomorrow morning to France. We’ll get there on Saturday and I hope to be set up for the cam and the blog then. I hope the picture improves.
Amitiés

Mother and Baby troughing again.

Lady and chick are feeding. I didn’t see much of it yesterday as She was always sitting on it when I looked but today the chick seems to have grown a lot since Monday.
Now Lady is moving a branch

Happy Birthday, Janette.

The stretched picture is so irritating. It looks much worse on the full screen.

Thank you, Jan. Your photos are wonderful.

Thanks. it’s nice to know that there are three chicks on the nest that Blue YD was born in.

Are you sure it wasn’t stretched? ondering:

He’s off again.

I’d say ‘hehe’ to Jan’s picture except that it such a shame for Lady to be seen in a funfair mirror.
I don’t think I see a stretched view though on the cam and I didn’t when I fist read Susan’s post. I can see […]

…and Laddie flies away.

She’s back.

Looked a few minutes ago and Lady was preening, the chick likewise. Looked away for a couple of minutes and back to see Laddie eating fish at the side of the nest and Lady absent.

A very Happy Birthday, Shirley.

Thank you, Susan, for the post. That was a very sweet clip of the baby preening. It’s dull here with a spot of rain. and it looks similar at the Lowes.