Just noticed it is Monday. It is my honor to start the new thread. Though I have not had much to contribute this season, I am nevertheless moved by the circumstances and events in the last week, not the least of which is the return of our dear ODIN.
Yesterday began with most of us resigning ourselves to OC (Orange Chest) being the new dominant male of the nest, especially after he kicked 2 eggs out of the nest, and destroyed the third in the nest cup. However, though EJ eventually accepted fish from him, she nevertheless refused to mate with him, shrugging him off time after time. Today OC brought a good sized brown trout to the nest, but promptly took off, after which a brief view of the chasing "intruder" was seen on the nest. This chasing "intruder" looked like ODIN, first mentioned by scylla, and commented upon similarly by other posters such as Moffer and Lindybird among others. Here is scylla's video of the fish and its disappearance followed by an osprey looking very much like Odin.
He did not return until late at night, caught by this video by BirdieNumNum, to our delight. We dearly hope to see him return victorious in the daylight.
Imagicat || Tiger's links || 2022 LG Obs
Definite alarm call, looks like OC landed briefly, all froze.
IMAGICAT
EJ has flown again.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Thank you SCYLLA. It all happened so quickly
No-one landed on my recording :-/ EJ piped alarm and got up and left, but I'm sure I saw a landing live :-/
The frames went from this:
To this:
Did VLC catch it by any chance?
EJ is defending the nest
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
scylla said: Does anyone know if they record and keep the live stream at the Centre?As MIKE said, they have posted videos - but they have only been a few seconds long and have no 'considered' beginning and ending, so I get the impression that someone hits Start and Stop to save a clip and no-one has time to produce videos à la Dyfi, whether their footage is backed up or not. I'm sure they'll give us a clip of Odin the Mag, tho ;-) [/quote] No doubt a recent vol will give us an update, but the vols in the F/H had a DVD recorder and were encouraged to press record when they saw something interesting happening. So not all was recorded and experienced vols could judge in advance what was likely to be interesting and pressed the record button in time. These DVDs were then edited by the OW to produce a highlights DVD for the following year. I well remember a vol reacted amazingly quickly in 2004 and got EJ removing the broken egg after it had been cracked in a fight with an intruding female. That lady deserved a medal. At least she got a hot cup of coffee. Some people think Ospreys are a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Does anyone know if they record and keep the live stream at the Centre?
I'm sure they'll give us a clip of Odin the Mag, tho ;-)
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No doubt a recent vol will give us an update, but the vols in the F/H had a DVD recorder and were encouraged to press record when they saw something interesting happening. So not all was recorded and experienced vols could judge in advance what was likely to be interesting and pressed the record button in time. These DVDs were then edited by the OW to produce a highlights DVD for the following year. I well remember a vol reacted amazingly quickly in 2004 and got EJ removing the broken egg after it had been cracked in a fight with an intruding female. That lady deserved a medal. At least she got a hot cup of coffee.
Some people think Ospreys are a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
She's back:
CRinger said:So not all was recorded and experienced vols could judge in advance what was likely to be interesting and pressed the record button in time.
That's just what we (MOFFER, CIRRUS, RobertTheBruce, A Man Who Didn't Like Me, others, and I) used to do in my first year 2011, with VLC :-) Those were the days ;-D
With all due respect to Richard you should understand that his role was not just to greet visitors in the VC. He had the whole of Abernethy to monitor.
scylla said:A Man Who Didn't Like Me