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.
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He still has fish and is alarm calling on the nest. It's not OC. No orange chest, it's ODIN :)
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
EJ has the fish!
Oh!!! She nabbed the fish and he flew - I think ;-)
IMAGICAT
Now she's worried about leaving the nest...
EJ takes the fish
Back again:
Is he trying to torment EJ?
Perhaps she's blowing raspberries at him. I'm pleased she has eaten today.
Blimey, she went for the fish and she got it:
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
ODIN and ODIN
Not going to be easy for odin
Now EJ is mantling giving alarm calls. Protecting her fish and nest.
Cirrus - we know Odin has fished so I can only think he is maybe just having a rest preparing for another attack on OC to chase him.
This OC looks to me to be much bigger than Odin and he is not going easily. Unfortunately I think this conflict could go on but at least Odin has good tactics fishing very early for food (energy) for himself and EJ. I remain positive - Odin is an experienced male, he'll know what to do :-)