"Birds are, quite simply, little miracles - and as such they require care and consideration."
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Hi Clare. Hope you sent Limpy off with some warm gear and a hot drink!. Bright but cold wind here.
Birdies LG DU update.
I didn't send Limpy off with anything - I was sound asleep at the absurd hour he left the house! He always makes up a flask of tea to take with him and he does wrap up warmly now he's getting on a bit!
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 calls (thought it sounded like a fish call) and took a short break.
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
Ooh, a changeover:
She flies off and Odin arrives:
The familiar proud appearance of Odin incubating:
There wasn't a fish.
Morning Clare. Thanks for that. Trying to do many things at once.
Always the case in the osprey season. How are you, by the way?
Odin is quite fidgety - bless him, he clearly loves incubating but I wonder if he'd forgotten just how much less comfortable it is for a male bird?
He appears to be eating the carpet now.
EJ is taking a nice, long break - Odin seems to be much more settled on the egg: