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
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16.04
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EJ is settled down and looks dry.
Nothing much else happening, not even bird calls of any kind, no chaffinch
Ooh EJ is giving gentle pips now.
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She is off!!!!
Edit it is Odin who has come back.
Well, that's one way to learn my VLC had frozen.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
She is cheeping again, is up and has taken off - I could hear the sound of wing beat.
Eggs home alone.
16.06 Odin arrives, and takes a leisurely look around him, before approaching the cup and then settles on the eggs.
EJ was asking for a break!
Odin arrives:
Looks around his kingdon
Steps down
Awww
EJ come back and virtually levered Odin off the eggs :-)
16.12 a cheep and EJ appears. Cheep cheep, dear, thank you, my turn. Odin flies off over the back of the nest and EJ checks the eggs before settling down.
The sound is out of synch for me. She had landed on the nest with her second or third cheep when I hear her flapping wings. She must have been on the cam post.
She's back:
16.39 EJ content
EJ is calling and looking towards the cam tree.