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 has flown.
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 for all updates and pics.
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Evening
EJ paid close attention to the nestcup while Odin sorted sticks:
Odin defended the nest with mantling and chirps that don't sound at all scary to us, it didn't come to anything:
More nestcup work by EJ:
Nestorising went on up to 2000hr:
NIGHTCAM 2043hr
Looks like a wet night, sounds like a windy one:
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