Melv 2Nd Chick Lost

[carrot99]

I was just watching and the second chick was standing towards the camera on the piece of wood. After a few minutes of flapping and preening he tried to step down onto the metal pole. He missed his step. He was only a month old. I'm so sad, first time I've watched a nest and probably the last.

[Tilly2]

Carrot, if you read the blog, it says that the chick is in the corn, unharmed and being fed by the parents. All is not lost, it seems.

[carrot99]

Tilly where is the blog. I've only got the text in Hungarian. I ignored translate to English for so long that it doesn't offer me that any more. Thank goodness he's ok.

[carrot99]

Thanks Tilly. I've found the blog below and copied the last entry into a translator. Looks like the oldest and well developed chick might have survived. I'll watch out for a blog on this morning's escapee. Fingers crossed he survives too as he isn't as mature as the older one. Thanks again.

[Tilly2]

Try this link, Carrot. It might enable you to translate into English.
https://www.mavir.hu/web/mavir/feszekmegfigyeles

[Mamyalynne]

Chick was very eager to go flapabout yesterday, glad all is well so far.

If you right click then you should get an option to translate to English.

[melv16]

Just seen this post. Juv int box having a preen.

[carrot99]

Thank goodness one's returned. This nest watching has been an absolute roller coaster for me. I've known them since they were eggs and have been looking in several times each day. I still can't get English on my tablet or phone but I'm watching out for any new blog which I'll pop in a translator. Yesterday's escapee was still downy so I'm worried that he won't get back. Fingers crossed for him.

[melv16]

Carrot, you should have been on here a few years ago. Several of us were watching a kestrel cam in Dorset. The runt of the chicks (tiny) managed to survive against all the odds. It was a helter skelter 3 weeks or so. The year after the same happened again and the year after that the female was killed by a peregrine. The male paired up again and succefully raised a brood.
Sadly, that nest isn't filmed any more.
There's a long thread on here about the tiny years, but I can't find it.

[carrot99]

I've been here years Melv and remember the bird threads of previous years but I was never interested. For some reason your June post caught my imagination and I've been watching the nest daily. For a lot of the time shouting "get away from the edge"!

[melv16]

There's one kipping in the box.

[carrot99]

I think he's the stronger one who left on Monday, yesterday's leaver was still a bit downy. I've just read the latest blog and they say the younger one flew off yesterday but I was watching and he fell sideways after missing his footing stepping down from the wood to the pole. Seems a bit odd that they should lie.

[melv16]

https://m.facebook.com/home.php?ref=homescreenbrowser#!/story.php?story_fbid=4239868762759131&id=113908735355175&refid=7&ref=homescreenbrowser&_ft_=qid.-7932025933830367618%3Amf_story_key.-4474754534069389765%3Atop_level_post_id.4239868762759131%3Acontent_owner_id_new.113908735355175%3Apage_id.113908735355175%3Asrc.22%3Astory_location.5%3Aview_time.1629404295%3Afilter.h_nor%3Aott.AX8gPqWD5zoc-4Nr%3Atds_flgs.3&__tn__=%2As%2As-R
Translation off Facebook post.

[roadman]

What an emotional rollercoaster this thread is

[carrot99]

I thought watching a pair of eggs grow into young birds would be a simple pleasure. On reflection watching two eggs on a platform half way up an electricity pylon was bound to have the occasional hair-raising moment. At that height I'm now just surprised that any birds survive at all.

[melv16]

1 int box having a kip.

[carrot99]

Yes 'nest of mum and dad' I expect he's hoping for a takeaway to arrive.

[melv16]

Carrot, you'll be happy to know that both juvs are on the platform preening.

[carrot99]

Yes, melv I was so pleased to see the young one again. Sadly when the mum turned up with food a few minutes ago the young one was elbowed off the platform during the scrum! Mum flew off after him so I expect he'll be back again.

[melv16]

Both juvs ont box again.

[bednobs]

it's like a soap opera!