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
Spinneygal said:Are we to infer that maybe Caledonia and Alba could have been from Blue XD and not Odin?
Oldshoremore said:I will find the pictures of Alba and link to the chat thread Many thanks! [/quote] I put the links in the chat thread Tiger Signature
I will find the pictures of Alba and link to the chat thread
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EJ's hormones are still in incubation mode and will be for a while until they readjust. Given the time for that to happen before she can hormonally get back into egg production mode, plus bonding, I doubt we will see any further eggs on this nest this year.
Spinneygal said: Are we to infer that maybe Caledonia and Alba could have been from Blue XD and not Odin? OC then being a relation.
Are we to infer that maybe Caledonia and Alba could have been from Blue XD and not Odin? OC then being a relation.
Some of us thought that.
EJ has flown.
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
JanetW said: EJ's hormones are still in incubation mode and will be for a while until they readjust. Given the time for that to happen before she can hormonally get back into egg production mode, plus bonding, I doubt we will see any further eggs on this nest this year.
I feel sure that you are right there. It would be a bit much to ask EJ to pair up with this new male in less than two weeks.
Personally I am glad that EJ is now getting to eat.
Hazel b said: Tiger could you look back at the question re a time frame IF there are to be eggs again?.
Tiger could you look back at the question re a time frame IF there are to be eggs again?.
I gave my view in the Osprey Chat Thread last night.
In 2005 the eggs were broken on 25 April and the season was lost.
Thank you Tiger. That was the post I was looking for.
Birdies LG DU update.
She's back.
Skydancing. EJ looks up.