Here's to the month of June where we hope for at least one of Lady's and Laddie's eggs to hatch.
Is this present chick The ladys' 50th ?
Every egg a bird
Yes - what a fantastic statistic!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Thanks Clare, I thought I had read that it would be a while back. Glad to know I hadn't dreamt it and I wonder if that is something of a record. I dare bet that Tiger can tell us
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Bluejay said: Is this present chick The ladys' 50th ?
It depends on what you mean by 50th. 49 chicks of Lady's have fledged but quite a few died between hatching and fledging.
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ChloeB said: So, no sign of another egg hatching?
So, no sign of another egg hatching?
In my view that was egg #4 that hatched today so this will be an only chick. The policy of redundancy works again.
Tiger, I am curious as to why egg #4, I think 2 or 3 as egg 4 must be the most unlikely to hatch if others do not. We will never know :) No matter what fantastic news yippee.
A toast to Lady and Laddie.
Hazel b said: In my view that was egg #4 that hatched today so this will be an only chick. The policy of redundancy works again.
Tiger - I have to agree with you. I voiced elsewhere that the hatch today could well have been egg #4. It was within the normal range for it to have been.
What fantastic news!! Well done to Lady, Laddie and all the osprey team at LOTL on this very special day. What a marvel Lady is :-)
I have not been feeling very well since my visit to Caerlaverock yesterday, and walking around the Geltsdale RSPB reserve this morning didn't help a great deal (although it was interesting, and the weather stayed fine). Hence my late arrival on this thread (actually I did try to get in once in the late afternoon but failed). It is certainly cheering news to read of the new arrival. It seems healthy, and Laddie should be well capable of providing for it, even if another one joins it; like Tiger and SilverS11 I think this could well be egg#4 - a little bit late to be #3, especially for Lady.
"Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not too sure about the universe..." - Albert Einstein