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!
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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
He's back and pushed her with his belly on the nest. She was not pleased, it seemed to me.
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In again wanting to mate, EJ protested loudly.
And he's now flown.
Heard him go in a buffer.
Hee! I got your belly-pushing :-D
How strange! I got such a shock when she lifted herself up and I saw only one egg :'(
Very belly-gerent of him I thought!
I've been sadly eyeing those eggs on the rim myself...
Unknown said:belly-gerent
A winner ;-D
I get slapstick when I'm tired. Glad you appreciate <grin>
I must reluctantly retire soon -- I have been cleaning my table of overpiled paper stacks accumulated over 6 months.
Oh I do appreciate, very much!
An aircraft passed over, slow and heavy it sounded to me.