Super Odin, Odin the Magnificent, Odin the Great, Odin the Fish Dude, Fishy Odin....... ok so maybe not the last one but whatever way you look at it we could not have asked for a better male! He seems intent on breaking every and any record we have, just last night he brought two fish to the nest within 15 minutes of each other, 15MINUTES!! Here we were all thinking how amazing it was that he had brought in two fish within an hour of each other a couple of times and then he goes and does this!
So including that burst from last night the overall total for the past week is 51 fish, an average of over 7 a day! Quite an achievment when you imagine all he has been through over the past few weeks, no fishing line can stop this osprey. I think the Superman 'S' would quite suit Odin at the moment.
You would think therefore that EJ wouldn't have to worry about anything apart from looking after the nest but she's been at it as well! Yesterday EJ went off fishing herself again (twice!), there is certainly no need for her to be fishing (unlike last year) but perhaps she was just a bit bored on the nest. All the more fish for the chicks which has to be a good thing.
The result of all these fishing shannanigans is that we now have three healthy chicks on the nest, in fact the chicks seem to spend most of their time sleeping off the last meal. If this keeps up then we certainly have a good chance of three chicks fledging the nest in a couple of weeks time. I am sure you will be joining us in keeping everything crossed in the hope that all three chicks will be flying off to Africa in late August.
Unfortunately have to finish on a slightly down note, we seem to have run out of cake..............