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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Just come back on. Am I seeing and hearing things???!!!!!
Can it really be true? Is he fit?
Oh - apologies everyone - forgetting my manners in the excitement - thanks for the updates so far.
Oh, I do hope he's healthy.
This is just the best news. I always knew he was out there and that the magnificent one would return.
Now Odin must get rid of OC.
Clare thank you also, I am still in total shock! although very relived, I now hope Odin has the strength to oust OC OUT once and for all.
Wonderful news! I never really believed that he had gone!
I'm sure the combined forces of Odin and a now eggless EJ will do the job.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
I think Odin will be fit now as he has had a few days to recuperate and build his strength also possibly there are less intruders. The earlier intruder around could well of been Odin .. I know absurd, but that is how OC would view Odin.
I expect Odin is doing the business just now - he will have to chase off OC. No offense meant but in my eyes, Timbuktu isn't far enough away for OC.
scylla said: I just imagined that Odin came to the nest and defended and flew off. It makes me feel sick... Loud skydance, fish landing, intruder, all gone. I hope he didn't drop the fish but wouldn't be surprised: (Please visit the site to view this video)
I just imagined that Odin came to the nest and defended and flew off. It makes me feel sick...
Loud skydance, fish landing, intruder, all gone. I hope he didn't drop the fish but wouldn't be surprised:
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Just looked at Scylla's video, thanks Scylla. The bird skydancing and landing with fish is OC. So where is EJ? Did she not hear him? The second bird looked like OL and the last bird? I dunno. Doesn't OL really look like Odin. My heart lept when I watched it.
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While we're on the subject of eggs I'm assuming there is only faint hope of a second clutch......and even less of any surviving chicks from one. I'm not going to write off the chances completely, though, as EJ is a bird who enjoys defying the odds.
Yay! I knew he would come back, I wonder where he has been? Wonder if Ej went to find him? Fingers crossed he can get rid of OC!!
Yay, over the moon to hear the news. I bet he was one of the birds on Scylla's vid. Scylla said it looked like Odin, I thought it was perhaps the Odin lookalike and actually went thru the vid three times, trying to convince myself it was Odin. It sounded like his high pitch scream intruder alarm. Could it really be true??
I felt quite a jolt when I saw EJ on incubating, and the shell disappeared. Bless her.
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