No extreme weather yesterday, and our osprey couple spent the day mating enthusiastically and nestorising, breaking off to deal with an unseen intruder.
A leftover mystery solved - EJ was brought a headless fish in the morning but didn't make a move to eat it for... how long? Over 4 hours! It got covered a couple of times, EJ sniffed at it and snubbed it, but eventually she flew off with it @ 11:45hr:
The nestcup situation remains a concern to some of us, it seems to be harder this year to scrape out a good shape even without the problem of the PM hole.
IMAGICAT
He is back and they both look very content with each other.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Here he is again:
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
EJ beginning to chirrup and Odin takes the opportunity to mate
He has gone
He does indeed, Patily:
Is EJ reminding Odin about the fishy part of the deal?
Good morning everybody and, once again, many thanks to Scylla for the 'overnight-watch', pics and info.
Can still hear the wind around the nest - sounds just as bad as yesterday. Odin is DEFINITELY going to be 'a tufty boy' today :-D.
Doasyouwouldbedoneby
Odin comes to mate AGAIN so he hasn't gone for fish
Good Morning OB
More rampantness:
BFN SYL hope the work on the site doesn't upset things too much