So what has been happening on the nest this week ?, well not much really, she has just been sitting incubating her little eggs for most of the time, bit boring really.

But then today I decided to try and get a decent picture which was more exciting than you could possibly imagine - needed to get hidden in the loft space above the garage, and getting there with my knackered back and no ladders (due to the swallows nesting on them) was about as exciting as it get these days :D (I do appreciate I joined this forum to discuss my falling to bits spine, but chatting about birds i guess is far more therapeutic)

Anyway - here she is on the nest

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And here is her mate waiting patiently outside on the lamppost -

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I really appreciate your posting the photos.

... as long as you don't injure your spine more in doing so! ;)

Thanks

Perhaps the Green Heron?

Google that --I am iPhone impaired regarding
Copy/paste--but I saw a site saying the
Green heron often uses "bait" to lure fish.

Ooppsss.. Sorry wrong thread but I think
you will see this here anyway;)
I am on vacation and have no computer.

First two hatched after 12 days of sitting, that is fairly quick but the weather here is about as hot as it gets, and I guess warm weather helps the incubation process! - 3 days in a row the temp has hit 25° (feels like we are getting roasted alive). The following pic was taken this morning, I would imagine the other two eggs will have hatched now, they usually all hatch on the same day.

Its an amazing thought that this tiny little pink speck of life will fly about 8000 miles to South Africa (including crossing the Sahara desert) by Xmas.


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Yes, it is a wonder. A miracle really.

I often wonder at the tiny hummingbirds
too. ;)

Incredible.

It is certainly difficult to believe they fly that far when you see them like that.

Bad Cormorant, you must be used to very cold weather.
It's mid-winter here and today will be 23C perhaps and maybe 25C in a few days time.
I'm sorry for your heat wave but I think that'll suit a lot of the visitors for the C'Wealth Games. :o

Well done with the photos. You're doing an amazing job.


:Wave-Hello: to mrsD

Got up to 27 today, far far too hot - we headed off to the coast where it was only 19, plenty of hot sunshine but a nice freshness in the air - took a dip in the North Sea, nothing quite like it for removing aches and pains, 10 minutes in the water and you can feel like new again (I think survival time at the moment is 15 minutes:))

As for the C'Wealth Games - Can't believe what's happening, we had thought some proper Scottish weather would have given us home advantage, but this strange hot weather is clearly suiting the Aussies - It's no natural all this blue sky and heat.

brrrrrrr

I always tend to think about these sporting events in population numbers for some reason.
[plus some places spend a LOT of money helping train their athletes]

Scotland is only just over 5 million people isn't it?
We're just over 23 million (I think).
Some of the other Commonwealth nations have much greater populations.

I think Scotland is doing really well, heatwave or not!

Looking at it by "people per medal point" and we have an undoubted leader of the pack with a country I have never heard of, and needed to find it on Google Earth "Nauru" (200x more sucessful than England - LOL)


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How interesting.
Nauru is almost sitting right on the Equator.
Nauru is in our news a lot. Not necessarily for good reasons.
It's a phosphate island and was devastated by mining.

long story...