Yesterday afternoon (according to those on the scene - it was among a lot of detail that we missed due to severe cam problems), the orange-chested male intruder "OC" dropped a fish onto the nest, and after a starving EJ took it away to eat it the carnage began.
In brief!
Anyone looking?
The orange-eyed destroyer. (I have to say, unfairly I know, that he has none of the "gorgeousness" of Odin the Magnificent.)
EJ returned with the tail-end of the fish, which she continued to eat despite the scene that greeted her:
EJ cleared the ground and proceeded to incubate the one egg that appears to be left intact:
The threat to the surviving egg is great:
OC won't have it easy, he may not even prevail in the longer term - the other intruders are still on the case:
To cap it all after a long and harrowing day, it seemed that EJ was disturbed, probably by the pine marten, just before midnight:
IMAGICAT
Ah, there was a flypast:
I do think she'd accept a fish at this point from OC.
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Good catch scylla - so you DID hear wings. I thought I saw a wing blur at that same location just before she got up to have a break, but I was not sure.
Suddenly becoming light as EJ chirps softly.
Unknown said: so you DID hear wings.
No, I didn't (should have said)... I realised it was a strange echo of EJ's voice.
I think she'll take a fish too. I wondered just now if I heard the beginning of a skydance but it came to nothing.
It seems she can see someone flying around, she's done a sweep of the sky.
Bathroom break for me - coffee goes straight thru ;-)
Yes, and when she was looking up I thought I may have heard a second of skydance too, but then straining my ears with sound on high I could hear nothing more. Have a good potty break.
Landed in a freeze! No fish?! Trying to mate! Need to replay.
It's that guy again. Tried to mate - no fish. >:-{
He's gone. Boy oh boy, he's really gonna have to prove himself.
He's flown.