More intrusions yesterday but nothing like as aggressive as they have been. Odin caused concern, he was not seen on the nest for 9 hours but stamped his authority on it and on EJ when he did eventually appear, by pseudo-mating.
It's another windy night, EJ has just taken a 2-minute break - that's 2 minutes from getting up to sitting down, not 2 minutes in flight:
She returned from an unusual direction, hope you can recognise her legs in the top right:
Flaps:
Back on the eggs, alert, she is not sleeping yet as I type:
Gosh, I need to outline EJ's face, eyes and beak in that last snap, I can hardly pick her out myself :o
IMAGICAT
Alarm chirps from Odin on the nest. Odin is defending standing and flapping now.
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
Intruder !!! Dang!
And again Odin is calling and defending the nest.
You doing some snaps, MOFFER? :-)
Well that defence seems to have worked, for the time being anyway.
He's up and looking fierce:
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
was alarm calling again at 9.03. thought I could hear EJ too but not sure
Marina Kyriacou
Glad to hear that EJ has had a bit of fish now. All seems quiet the last few minutes I have looked, apart from the wind that is.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
He has flown.
Odin has flown.