4:12 Beauty lands on platform, and after surveying off camera, comes back in, quite alert.

4:15 Archer shows up on platform, and after checking in, flies off.

All back to quiet.

Beauty squeaked and departed suddenly at 4:04 a.m. No Archer, and the Ustream 4-pak was on replay, so can't see anything else.

All eggs are intact.

No Archer

How about a portal protector?



This, from Lee Valley, or something like it, is a great solution!

I can't believe it's already here again!

Linwood Gardens is a private estate that opens to the public only from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the next Saturdays and Sundays, plus Memorial Day Monday. It has over 150 cultivars of tree peonies, Arts and Crafts architecture, European garden design, over 80 varieties of trees from around the world (my favorite are the Cedars of Lebanon), art and garden sculptures, a great view of the Genesee Valley and the tops of the valleys of the Finger Lakes (when it's clear), on an estate that serves as a wildlife sanctuary... just a beautiful, timeless retreat 35 miles southwest of Rochester. I know there are musicians coming to perform several of the early afternoons...

Here are photos from last year - The Rochester Area Nature Photography Meetup Group has come out three years in a row (plus planning on coming this year), and has posted some fantastic pictures.

I've been going for 14 years... hope some of you get a chance to join me!

 

 

With special note that on May 15, Archer tried to get in there repeatedly, but Beauty wouldn't let him on!

Thanks for keeping track!

Gone ten minutes, and his head is soaking wet. And only his head!

8:26

Foggy portrait - Beauty watching Archer leave.


And the eggs...





The front egg looks a little odd from this angle, but looks fine on the others...

 

No Archer, tho

 

Beauty tried again!



And Archer stayed put.