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Having had a closer look at the ringed leg in the middle of the tray/platform - maybe someone is missing a racing pigeon?
"I hear that Cedric bought it this afternoon chaps, we'll raise a glass to him tonight" stiff upper lip and all that.

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Nice fresh looking area. Good. As lapsed Free Presbyterians say in Morayshire, Ma Shallah!

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Ooooer missus someone seems to have lost a ringed leg in the middle of the tray!!

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PS could (gulp) they have turned cannibal??

I too think we should have a Traab VI.
I think Kararea should run it, a sensible,sensitive woman. (no disrespect to the current team)

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And some brave soul has been up there and ringed them!

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They seem to have spent the night alone and appear to be concentrating on GROWING with more proper feathers appearing.

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The authors C S Lewis and Tolkien used to drink in the pub the Eagle and Child in Oxford. OH if correct.

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The venue was the L'Escargot Rouge - our beloved redsnail?

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Yeah but no but...Is it true?

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.....was reddo at the venue too?? Ponder that for a minute.

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The chicks are at the stage that all comparable young'uns are. Eat, sh1t, sleep. Their outer wing feathers are beginning to show and the "fluff" is slowly disappearing. Fascinating watch.

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They serpently are! The parent can't cover all four now to keep them warm at night. I see there is another webcam at a big building in Glasgow, the Gilbert Scott tower, with four peregrine chicks. They are proposing to abseil to the nest (which is a big proper nest) to electronically tag the chicks ...

That is what happens in medical schools today but in the '50s in Aberdeen (Scotland)medical school two students shared a cadaver and took it apart themselves. So they were finding their way around, say, the path of the vagus nerve so the results were not pretty. The prof of anatomy always insisted t...

In the '50s in Scotland you also had to be a "bona fide" traveller to be served a drink. And you had to sign the "bona fide travellers register" which had interesting entries such as "Athens Greece to Athens Missouri"**, and in one that I read "from the cradle to the grave". Oh what fun we had we bl...

How can one reliably tell the male and the female apart? My Observer book of birds is not terribly helpful in this regard. I've been tending to assume that the one that is visible most of the time is the hen as I've only occasionally seen another bird appear with a kill. I'm sure she's aware of the ...

My aren't they growing quickly! Right now the "parent" (sex unknown) is sounding really cross and shouting at the other "get a bloody move on and catch something to eat". It did the same yesterday evening, got no reply, left the nest and came back in about two minutes with what looked a blackbird si...

Kararea - yeah that's it but it won't fit nicely at a gap in text.
bob2 - my wife has white,silvery hair. Getting a passport photo that satisfied the automatic checker system was a PITA - "not enough contrast with the background". Grrrr!

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As a rim shot is audio an emoji would not work, it would have to be followed by a cymbal clash to complete it.

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Revealing his choice of priorities "for the good of the SNP, the government and the people of Scotland". You got them in the wrong order you bastard!

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The feed seems to be frozen. I can hear the wind over the mic but the bird isn't moving. It was the same last night about 2200 when I had a last check before going off to bed.

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