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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YES WOW WEEEE!! To say that I am extatic would be an understatement, the Great, Wonderful, Powerful Boy IS BACK. Like us all I am sure, in our minds we did not want to think the worst had happened, but somewhere in all the sadness of this week
I kept saying "somewhere he is recuperating and will get back". As they say the rest is history!! This thread is going into overheat mode with all our posts! Friends we will all sleep tonight. Beautiful EJ your man has returned.
Welcome Rusty, 5 years is a long time but what a week you chose to joint this mad, happy, friendly bird loving family. Enjoy, it is great.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Hey CC. I missed your post. What a great day this has turned out to be :) Blimin MAGICAL!
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william i said: Hi all again, I also feel the need to return from lurking (if that is the term for just reading the blog). Certainly the events of recent days has stirred me to action and pleased to see Odin back. Was the intruder known as OC because of his rings? Or otherwise. Also, is EJ trying to rearrange the furniture so as to reach th abandoned egg at the edge of the nest (or just my vivid imagination?). Keep up the great work everyone.
Hi all again, I also feel the need to return from lurking (if that is the term for just reading the blog). Certainly the events of recent days has stirred me to action and pleased to see Odin back. Was the intruder known as OC because of his rings? Or otherwise. Also, is EJ trying to rearrange the furniture so as to reach th abandoned egg at the edge of the nest (or just my vivid imagination?). Keep up the great work everyone.
Sadly, all eggs are trashed IRVINE , it only looks whole. Glad you got out of luking mode :)
Hello, EJ looks very alert all of a sudden - has she seen something?
EJ loveingly turns her broken empty shell :(
Cam keeps freezing, but I'm sure she's looking around more than bedore.
:-(
I am getting seriously concerned that Odin has not come back to the nest. Is it possible that seeing all the eggs had gone he has abandoned EJ? Maybe OC is keeping him away as he hasn't been back either!
So so pleased to hear the news. I had been checking almost constantly the last few days but gave it a bit of a rest today & just checked first thing and then lunchtime. So have been astounded at the news!
Yes Oldshoremore, I also think EJ looks very alert this evening.