月曆

23:58:41 Ghost 吃得很不錯，還把 doc 帶走了。

23 58 41 ghost had a good feed and took doc to go

23:40:02，Ghost 在柱子（post）上🤩

23 40 02 ghost on the post🤩

Luna 嗎？現在在 FP（FP），剛剛飛走了。

Luna? Now on FP, just flew off

祝你今天愉快（HAGD），快樂賞鳥（Happy birding）。

HAGD Happy birding

7:02 🌅

7 02 🌅

3:54 電線桿／棲桿（post）上有一個「幽靈」(👻)，多半是在開玩笑指很難看清楚的鳥或物體。

3 54 👻 on the post

1:05 Ollie 在前景平台（fp）上吃東西，然後打盹睡覺 😴 💤

1 05 Ollie on the fp eats and takes a nap 😴 💤

那隻寒鴉（jackdaw）站得超級一動也不動，我還以為我們有一瞬間（for a sec）把 Beech Stump Int 的直播（feed）弄沒了 😂

That jackdaw is standing so perfectly still I thought we'd lost the Beech Stump Int feed for a sec 😂

嗨 Natasha 和 Michelle 😊 我在這裡，只是一直有點黏在 AW（AW）那邊看 A+A（A+A）。

Hi Natasha and Michelle 😊 I am here but have been a bit glued to AW watching A+A

寒鴉（jackdaws）真是個討厭鬼（pest）。

jack jaws are a pest

這些 JD's（通常指 jackdaws，寒鴉）真是讓人很頭痛，痛在你知道的那個地方（you know what）。

These JD'S are a pain in the you know what

至少牠們是分開時間到的；Apollo 今早在 AH 那邊跟 JDs 周旋得很辛苦。

At least they arrived at different times though, Apollo has been having a tough morning with the JDs over at AH

beech（山毛櫸）樹樁這塊地的「房價」還是高到飛天 😅

Beech stump property price continues to be through the roof 😅

好，牠也有一隻進到 beech（山毛櫸）巢裡了。08:26

Ok, one entered the beech nest too. 08.26

為什麼我們會看到 syca？

why are we seeing syca?

08:24 beech（山毛櫸）入口有一隻寒鴉（jackdaw）。

08.24 there's a jackdaw in beech entrance.

寒鴉（Jackdaws）又回到 beech（山毛櫸）巢。牠們是每天都會來嗎？

Jackdaws are back at Beech nest. Do they visit every day?

早安（GM）< 哇，昨晚 Gylfie 在 FP 上坐了好久。我白天進來時不太常看到她，也許是躲在 BOT 裡。Dryer 以前常陪她到 FP，她看起來不像平常的樣子。

GM< wow that's Gylfie sat for ages lasy night on FP. I don't see her much in daytime when I pop in, maybe hiding in BOT. Dryer used to accompany her to the FP often, she doesn't seem herself.

晨間的紅隼（Kestrel）到了，不過好像是「doh」來了。

The mornig Kestrel doh arrives

幾乎完全長大了（all grown up）。

allmost all grown up

有可能。

It could be

看起來還是毛茸茸的（fluffy）嗎？

still fluffy looking?

那是 Magellan 嗎？

is that Magellan?

有幾聲鳴叫（hoots）。

some hoots

她曾經一度嚴重憂鬱（depressed）了一陣子，但後來又振作起來（bounced back）。

She was seriously depressed for a while, but bounced back.

大約一年左右後，她爬到我家外面的電線桿（telegraph pole）上， شکار/狩獵（hunting）鳥類。

A year or so later, she climbed the telegraph pole outside my house, hunting for birds

總之，這段對話有點變得沉重、陰森（morbid）了，而且我真的得去做家務（chores）了；非常謝謝你的聊天，雖然你其實大多是在聽我發牢騷（rant）。

Anyway, this conversation has got a little morbid and I do have to go do some chores, thank you so much for the chat albeit listening to me rant

我鄰居有隻貓出了某種意外，尾巴（tail）沒了，之後牠就再也不一樣了。

My neighbour had a cat that had an accident of some sort and lost it's tail it was never the same afterwards

我差點讓牠安樂死（PTS, put to sleep / put down），因為我以為牠會失去求生意志（will to live）。

I almost had her PTS because I thought she’d lose her will to live.

喔，也許吧。我以前有一隻很可愛的貓，牠把後腳（hind leg）卡在圍欄裡，需要截肢（amputation）來避免壞疽（gangrene）。

Oh maybe. I had a lovely cat who trapped her hind leg in a fence and needed an amputation to prevent gangrene.

老實說（TBH, to be honest），她讓我也跟著心情低落（bringing me down）。

She's bringing me down TBH

你同意嗎？那隻貓頭鷹（owl）看起來真的很憂鬱（depressed）。

Do you agree? thats one depressed owl there

我常注意到 Gylfie 很常比較晚才來覓食柱（FP, feeding post），甚至在 Dryer 還在的時候就是這樣。簡直像是她想等那些閒雜人等（riffraff）先走！

I’ve noticed so often that Gylfie visits FP later, even before Dryer went. Almost like she wants all the riffraff to go first!

「照著流程做、只是應付了事（going through the motions）」這就是大家常講的關鍵詞／流行語（buzz words）。

Going through the motions is the buzz words

如果那是個人類坐在一盤食物前，你會不會走上前問他怎麼了（whats wrong）？你還在想念你的伴侶嗎（missing your partner）？牠甚至吃得一點都沒精神（with any gusto）。

If that was a human over a plate of food you would go up to them and ask them whats wrong? are you still missing your partner? she's not even eating with any gusto

那時候我不在場，但他真是個很棒的父親（exemplary father）。

I wasn’t around then, but what a exemplary father.

風中（wind）。

wind

我猜你現在看到的是 Gylfie 在覓食柱（FP, feeding post）上；她那樣已經很久了。我一直看時鐘，確認自己沒有把畫面暫停（paused it），也再三檢查是不是攝影機當掉（frozen cam），結果她的羽毛還在風中飄動（blowing in the wind）。

I'm assuming thats Gylfie now on FP, she's been like that now for ages, I keep checking the clock to see I havent paused it and I've checked again for a frozen cam and her feathers are blowing in the

當然，我百分之百確定（100% convinced）她知道；就像幾年前 Mr Kes 接手餵食（taking over and feeding）那樣。

For sure, I'm 100% convinced she knew, take Mr Kes taking over and feeding a few years back

我仍然很確定，Dryer 過世那天，Gylfie 正在外面幫雛鴞（owlets）找食物。她知道自己得接手（take over），而且這是她以前從沒做過的工作（task）。

I’m still clear that the day Dryer died Gylfie was out finding food for the owlets. She knew she had to take over, a task she’d never done before.

對啊，你看得出來這是我特別感興趣的一點；順帶一提（for the record），如果 Forrest 正在潛水偷看（lurking），我絕對不是在說她的想法或說法有任何一點是錯的。

Yes, well as you can tell thats one that interests me particularly, and for the record if Forrest is lurking I'm not saying for one minute what she thinks or says is wrong

關於其他物種（other species），甚至我們自己，還有太多不理解的地方。真是很有意思的想法。

So much we don’t understand about other species, and even ourselves. Such interesting thoughts.

從她的行為（actions）觀察起來，我覺得這相當明顯（fairly clear）。

Observing her actions I think it's fairly clear.

和他在一起時有得到同樣的滿足嗎？

did with him?

除非有一天我們能像杜立德醫生（Dr Dolittle）那樣，直接聽動物自己說，否則誰知道呢？誰又能知道 Gylfie 其實沒有在哀悼（mourning） Dryer，只是她和 Percy 相處的那些時光，可能根本沒讓她得到滿足（satisfy）呢？

Untill the day we can be Dr Dolittle and hear it from the animals directly who's to know? Who's to know that Gylfie isnt mourning Dryer and that the times with Percy simly didnt satisfy her like it

牠們把它泡在鹽水裡（salt water），味道會更好。為什麼我們人類會那麼自大（arrogant），覺得這種行為只有我們才有？我們又是怎麼學會使用工具（use tools）和準備食物的？

it in the salt water to taste better. Why are we so arrogant as humans to think that this behaviour is unique to us? How did we learn to use tools and was our food?

我昨晚看了電視上關於動物智力（smarts of animals）的節目，裡面有海邊的獼猴（Mkaks）在吃水果前先洗水果，因為「沒有人喜歡食物裡有沙子（no one likes sand in their food）」；還有牠們在用海水調味（seasoning）讓食物更好吃。

I watched something on TV last night about the smarts of animals, they showed Mkaks on the beach, washing fruit before they ate it because "no one likes sand in their food" and they are seasoning

我們看過她和 Percy 交配（mating）；但隨著冬天接近，這件事先擱一邊（on the back burner）了。ForrestBooks 不認為貓頭鷹會哀悼（mourn），但我們怎麼會知道呢？

We saw her and Percy mating, but that’s on the back burner as winter approaches. ForrestBooks doesn’t think owls mourn, but how do we know?

我常說我爸爸是「傷心而死」（died of a broken heart）的；在我媽媽過世後 6 到 8 個月，他唯一想做的就是跟她在一起。

I always say my Dad died of a broken heart, 6-8months after my mother, all he wanted to do was be with her

我不覺得我們可以低估伴侶（partner）的力量；很多動物都依賴伴侶，甚至有些會因為某一性別（one gender）較少，而發展出同性關係（same sex relationships）。

I dont think we can underestimate the power of the partner, lots of animals depend on it, some even go into same sex relationships beacuse there is less of one gender

我也只看過她跟 Dryer 在一起。我猜她現在還卡在中間狀態（in limbo），直到她的築巢慾望（nesting urge）再次被觸發（kicks in）。

I’ve only seen her with Dryer too. I suspect she’s in limbo, until her nesting urge kicks in again.

這也是另一個點；我從沒在 Dryer 之前觀察過 Gylfie，但對，這可能是因素之一；或者她根本暫時沒有伴侶（without a partner altogether），畢竟她已經連續有過 3 個了（3 on the trot）。

Thats another thing, I've never observed Gylfie pre Dryer but yes that could be a factor, or maybe she is without a partner alltogether, after having 3 on the trot

也許只是因為我們有人類的包袱、行李和財物（baggage and possessions）吧？

Maybe that’s only because we have baggage and possessions?

想像一下，如果你是人類，卻在城鎮不同郊區（suburbs）各有好幾個「家」，有些晚上睡這裡、有些晚上睡那裡，久了真的會很煩、很單調（tedious）。

Imagine as a human you had hoses in several suburbs around the city/town and some nights you slept in on and some the others, it would get tedious

我猜她沒有 Dryer 之後，還是有點混亂、適應不良（discombobulated），不一定是情緒上。

I reckon she’s still a bit discombobulated without Dryer, not necessarily emotionally.

我覺得一般來說，動物和鳥類（animals and birds）跟人類一樣，都喜歡有個「家（home）」。

I think generally, animals and birds like humans like to have a "home"

我昨晚離開時她還在 Sycamore，後來我睡前在 iPad 上查看時，她已經不見蹤影（nowhere to be seen）了。

When I left last night she was in Sycamore then when I checked before going to sleep on my Ipad, she was nowhere to be seen

對，很有意思。我看過 Gylfie 在 Ash、Elm 和 Beech 裡築巢（nest）。

It’s interesting,yes. I’ve seen Gylfie nest in Ash, Elm and beech.

就我所見，穀倉貓頭鷹（BO's）似乎喜歡固定待在同一個巢裡，例如 Dryer 和 Ash。

From what I've seen BO's like to stick to the one nest, for example Dryer and Ash

我覺得 Gylfie 的行為（behaviour）真的很有趣；我也看過其他直播裡的穀倉貓頭鷹（BOs），這種會進出並待在不同巢（nests）裡的模式，看起來相當少見（fairly unique）。

I'm finding Gylfie's behaviour really interesting, I've watched BO's on other streams as well as this one, this going into and staying in different nests seems to be fairly unique

我剛想起我媽媽以前也這樣。手術（surgery）讓她看起來很怪，像一隻受驚的兔子（frightened rabbit）。好，回到小鳥（birdies）吧！

Just remembered my mum had that. Surgery made her look really weird. Like a frightened rabbit. Yes, back to birdies!

回到貓頭鷹（owls）話題吧，不然我們等下會被罵。

Back to the owls, before we get told off

是眼瞼（eyelids）太鬆了，這樣說比較貼切；我可能需要手術（surgery）修正，因為我的睫毛會往下長，遮住我的視線（obscure my vision）。

The eyelids, they are too loose for want of a better way of putting it, I may need surgery to fix it, my eyelashes go downwards and obcsure my vision

我覺得問題比較像是眼睫毛（eye lashes）而不是眼睛本身；我哥哥也有這種情況，但只有一隻眼睛。

It’s a problem with the eye lashes rather than the eye itself I think? My brother has it but just one eye.

沒錯，尤其有風（windy）時更明顯。

@toldavf Indeed especially when it’s windy too.

最近覓食柱（feeding post）有點搖晃。

the feeding post is a bit wobbly these days

22:33:22，穀倉貓頭鷹（BO, barn owl）在覓食柱（FP, feeding post）上抓到一隻鳥然後離開。

22.33.22 BO on FP grabs a doc & leaves.