Well not unexpectedly the season came to an end on Saturday morning when the intruding male broke the final egg.
As EJ is still in brooding mode she is still spending a lot of time on the nest brooding non existent eggs.
It now remains to be seen what will happen next. A variety of things could happen but as always with ospreys they will usually surprise us.
I guess the only way to find out is to keep watching.
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Morning all, another day and what will happen? Nice to see EJ has had food, even although you could hardly see it! Thanks again for the nightly and early morning updates. It is lovely for us all to follow LG with its highs and very sad lows, especially this week. Lets continue to do so with kindness and respect to each other not to mention the wit and humour thrown into the mix.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Unknown said:Best of Luck, EJ - we're all rooting for you, girl!
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
Hi everyone who's called in since my last greeting :-)
When EJ started flying off the nest for more than a few seconds this morning, I thought "Hooray! She's FREE". Now she's been gone for almost an hour, having left the nest at 0900hr, near as dammit :-)
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I wonder if she's looking for Odin? Not beyond the realm of possibility.
She's certainly the individual who has the best chance of finding him.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
At least she will be getting some exercise (unless she is perched somewhere, which of course we don't know). I'd rather have her out and about (even fishing, perhaps?) than incubating phantom eggs.
Karen W said:I too think this OC is very young and immature. It is very early days and we don't know much about the other intruders ie are they still here or have they moved on? But I just hope we see a period of calm.
There was skydancing just after EJ got her fish and OC was on the nest defending, so there's at least one intruder still around.
That's what I thought, Moffer.
CRinger said: My sincere hope is that the birds 'decide' that there is still sufficient time left in the season to lay a second clutch. If this proves not to be the case no doubt the staff and vols will be keeping a keen eye on both birds in case one or both decide to start building a frustration eyrie close to the nest. This happened at LG in 2001 if my memory is not playing tricks.
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Now whatever I might wish I do hope they do not build a frustration nest. If I had an osprey project equipped with expensive cameras and visitor centre the last thing I would want these birds to be doing is building a frustration nest.
As you will no doubt know the frustration nest of 1958 became the real nest of 1959 the one used to this day.
A frustration nest in 2001? Oh no that was Ollie's last year and him and Olive raised 3 chicks.
You must be thinking of either 2005 or 2007.
As for frustration nests. Well in good Blue Peter style here in one we prepared earlier.
On a trip to Loch Garten in 2011 ChloeB and I had a good look at the sites of previous frustration nests.
Here's EJ :-)