Nightjar. 2019

[Fleur]

8:43 Is it dry again?

[Hellem]

19:32 The nightjar parent (mom?) is very wet, it's still raining, the chicks are under her belly

[Fleur]

21:55 so wet

[Hellem]

22:16 The chicks are out and begging
22:38 The chicks are hungry and begging

22:41 The nightjar parent left

[laranjeiras]

22.42 chicks alone

[Fleur]

22:51 feeding

[Hellem]

23:12 Feeding out of cam view
23:23 Feeding
23:44 Feeding
00:05 Feeding

[Fleur]

June 27

Good morning
Yawn. You wouldn't have thought that I would be sitting here.

[Hellem]

14:00 The nightjar parent and the chicks next to her, beautiful family , they have to wait another 9 hours before the sun will set and the parent will bring food

[yitmoth]

Someone in the chatbox mentioned an apparent intruder at 17:56. So I had a look, and the male definitely reacted to "something" there, first assuming a defensive posture (mouth wide open, of course!) and then flying towards the intruder, or whatever it was. It's all over in less than 2 minutes (with a 30s gap in the stream after the incident ). But I recorded some "empty" time before and after just to show the sudden change in the male's attitude and how he gradually settles down again.

[Biker]

yes, 17:56:03 a big shadow appeared up right. thanks, yitmoth.
the male nightjar made his deterrent face - and we couldn't see it proper
but i didn't hear him hissing.

[Hellem]

23:18 The male nightjar flew away, their busy night started
23:31 Feeding
23:46 Feeding
23:57 Feeding

yitmoth , thank you very much for the video and pics

[Mamicja]

After feeding, one chick flew away, but soon again both were together and waited for feeding

[Moira]

:sneaks out of the closet:

Since when do they fly?

[Moira]

1:50 The parent left
2:00 The chicks did some jumping and stretching wings
2:23 feeding (one chick)
2:27 feeding, the parent remains with the chicks

[Fleur]

June 28

It seems they have flown out

ah, there they are...

[Triin]

June 28

It seems they have flown out

ah, there they are...

It's getting harder to find them. First time I had to go through archive to get an idea where to look for They have moved to the edge of the camera view, but we actually didn't expect to be able to follow the young this long anyway.

[Fleur]

Triin.
I think it is very special indeed, that we can see and follow them


edit: I'm forgot to say...thank you for zooming Triin

[Fleur]

They growing fast the last days

7:40 change place

[chrisitz]

hello, I am the first time at this forum and I felt in love immediatly with this cute family.
it takes a long time to recognize where their faces are