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
OC in nestcup
The third egg is seriously at risk now. He's chewing at the same stick he favoured during his rampage yesterday >:(
trying to boot out egg
Doing the dastardly deed
No words needed:
Not so easy!
It survives...
The cam is freezing over and over and over.
I've switched over to VLC for convenience, so no timeline.
Still the egg survives?
I have to get another coffee, am gasping here!