EJ and Seasca are confirmed as gone and we await the updating of Google Earth to show us the route that Seasca took to the point of embarking on a perilous journey across the Bay of Biscay.
Our last sightings of the remaining 2014 cast of LG characters:
Millicent - the eldest of this season's brood and the 100th chick to fledge from LG, but a tardy traveller compared to her second-hatched sibling - about to receive her breakfast yesterday morning:
Druie - The youngest, the smallest, the least well-fed in her infancy, but what a strong and feisty juvenile she has become - I think that doubts about her gender have been laid to rest by her generous breast pattern. Here she was having a potter and mild shout mid-afternoon:
Odin (add your own superlatives) - Will he stay until both his daughters have departed, or will he, like last season, leave ahead of one or more of them? Early afternoon he had brought a piece of fish and waited failthfully for 10 minutes - but, to quote LIMPY, "no takers":
What will today bring?
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Not that I wish to, but I would hazard a guess that we have seen the last of our dear osps. Millie and Druie had a fish from Odin the morning and we appear to have had no sightings since then. I hope I'm wrong, but tomorrow will be judgement day. If they have all gone, I am glad, as it means no juvie has been left alone as last year, when Breagha waited for two days before realising that dear Odin would not be bringing any more fish. At least we cannot hear the insessent calling this year!
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I may be wrong, but I don't think Odin ever leaves before the young. All we know is that he's not seen around the nest. He is so meticulous in everything he does, how could I think otherwise?
It is good to be positive! Tomorrow will reveal all!
Catching up with whats been happening. So it looks like Druie and Millie may have started their journeys south and also Odin. Will look in tomorrow sometime in the evening to see whether it has been confirmed.
It has been a great season and here's to next season.
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Well, Sheila, it'll reveal what's around the nest at any rate :-)
Henry used to stay until all the chicks had migrated and then come back about a week later just to make sure that there were none still around.
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Tiger, don't get me started on Henry! Mind you, as you've said before, Odin and Henry look very much alike. Perhaps they're alike in more than looks.
GARDENBIRDER you are quite right, of course - just because we don't see Odin on the nest, doesn't mean he's gone.
SheilaFE said:Millie and Druie had a fish from Odin the morning
I don't remember Druie getting a fish this morning - she came to the nest and waited in vain from 0754-0847hr. I could have missed something :-/
Tonight's light show:
Scylla, you're right. S/he didn't receive a fish on the nest. That's all we can say for sure.