Bird Cams Around the World

Someone there now. Sitting on the edge with tail in the nest and back to us. 3:05 PM Nice to see the Cam still running.

Red Girl is in the box now, wings to the side and beak open. It's too hot, although she doesn't really look stressed.

An hour ago she was perched on the box ledge, facing out, then made squeaky gate noises and jumped in the box as CJ flew up to perch two ledges to the right.

Mourning dove and robin yesterday. Black-billed cuckoo today.

I looked up the Yellow-billed Cuckoo on this site. Quite a large bird!
Hope it's a very common bird, otherwise it might become extinct with CJ favouring them . . .

It was indeed surprising how many cuckoos CJ's father Caesar and now CJ have been catching since 2003. There are more cuckoos around than we thought, although I usually hear them around my house in summer if I am outside long enough. Their numbers in the list of the falcons' prey seem to be holding up year to year.

Cuckoos are secretive, hiding in the leaves, and Accipiter hawks (Cooper's or sharp-shinned in the US, sparrow hawks in Europe) are more obvious threats to them than sky hunters like peregrines. The falcons must soar high, spot cuckoos on the canopy below and fly in low to take them by surprise.

Thanks Greg. It was hot yesterday.I saw her on the edge and wondered if you would SEE her there.

Looks like the camera feed is off.

Mourning dove feathers this morning.

Red Girl on the box ledge, looking out across town.

I have not had the chance to visit here lately with our fledges, but i am glad Red and Cj are still there.

Thanks as always, for morning reports Greg.

My link works again. Looks like Red to me too.

I think she's still there (unless Red Girl and CJ switched places).



Greg and DEF - Thanks for the info on Yellow-billed Cuckoos. I've never seen one, but it really looked beautiful in the picture when I clicked DEF's link. I'm sure I wouldn't like to see the head of one (let alone the head of any bird caught by CJ) lying on the sidewalk.

I rarely see anyone in the nest:

Thanks for all the pictures, and commentary about the cuckoo's. A pretty bird.

I agree, nice pictures everyone. I'm guessing Catwoman's and Catbird's are Red Girl, and Alison's are CJ -- he looks smaller than the other one in the same parts of the box.

CJ just made a quick stop to check out the scrapes in the nest box.

Many thanks to you, Greg, for all of your posted sightings and especially for your humor. Hope to see Kim next season too.

Good to meet you all. Pigeon and mourning dove yesterday.

Greg at least those two are in great numbers for sure. We had a flock of doves at our feeders yesterday. Thought of our Falcon friends as I watched them.Thanks for the side walk report.