The team are off to The Gambia on 7/1/2014 and Tim's latest Blog gives all the details. Watch this space.
Birdies LG DU update.
He just cannot stop the faffing and nestcupping, but you can see that he's digging under the egg with his beak, not trying to damage it.
Maya is back now with some leftover fish (which is what it was when it was given to her).
IMAGICAT
Tried to get a clear shot of the egg!.
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Hazel b said: Unsurprisingly, he is not in 'dad' mode yet. Memories of Red 8T in 2005. He was still nest cupping and incidentally kicking the eggs. Seems that 28 is in a similar mode. [/quote] If he IS the Dad !!!
Unsurprisingly, he is not in 'dad' mode yet.
Memories of Red 8T in 2005. He was still nest cupping and incidentally kicking the eggs. Seems that 28 is in a similar mode.
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If he IS the Dad !!!
SunnyKate2 said:If he IS the Dad !!!
That keeps crossing my mind too, KATE, because of how quick this egg has been - but I am not aware of other suitors, which is not to say that there haven't been any. Fortunately, MrMaya is not as savvy as Odin.
http://www.ospreys.org.uk/category/osprey-team-blog/
We must excuse their "newly-HATCHED egg" ;-D Thank you BRENDA :-)
Good morning all and thanks to all for pics and comments. Thrilled to see an egg but fingers crossed he will accept his duties but I the fact that he was paying attention to the egg in a fairly gentle manner is a promising sign.
Brenda thanks for link to blog.
Thhat was my first thought too but surely she wouln't mate anywhere else that on the nest and we haven't seenany such activity unntil 28 took an interest/
Thanks for link BRENDA Interestig! Is this a record? Only 3 days!
FISH delivery! :-) Maya has taken off with it, lets see if Mr does his job better this time ;-)