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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Brief protest.
IMAGICAT
Feeling brutally tired. So I'll guess I'll have to head off to roost. I don't think I'll ever forget the joy I felt when I saw Odin this morning. He and EJ are a perfect team.
See you later, fellow Ospreyholics :)
Happy watching!
Paul.
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Good (hopefully) morning all, thanks for reports so far. Special thanks to Scylla for early morning captures, especially 3.50 am video. Difficult to positively identify Odin because of appalling image resolution, and stop and start stream, but what would swing it for me is that EJ appeared to be COMPLETELY accepting, and showed no sign of resistance, which has NEVER occurred so far with OC.
Does anyone know if they record and keep the live stream at the Centre? As they have a perfect picture it should make identification much easier.
What will today bring?
Morning Everybody Been here a while but been reading back What fantastic news about Odin .....and he has already brought fish No wonder EJ looks relaxed
Morning all, Thank you all for the updates through the night. Things still don't seem settled but good to know Odin has been seen again. Keeping my fingers crossed all will be well today.
OSM I'm not sure about the recording situation but certainly they have far better quality pictures at the Centre. Occasionally they get posted in the Blogs. One can only hope that we get a blog today incorporating yesterdays news and perhaps some of this mornings.
Birdies LG DU update.
A very good morning to you all :)
Thanks CC for starting the day so well and to Scylla and all for the overnight/early morning posts, pics and videos.
I joined watching when EJ was eating on the nest, but had stuff to do so am only joining you here now. I also had to read everything and watch all the videos.
ODIN IS HOME! It wasn't some cruel dream. Unfortunately so is at least one intruder. Odin won the day yesterday and has even been fishing, so fingers crossed for a more positive day :)
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
Good morning, all! It's so good to know I didn't imagine yesterday. It's even better to know that EJ the Beautiful has already had some fish. Let's hope that events work out positively for EJ.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Hello Moffer. Yes the action was fast and furious for a few moments and then we have reverted to EJ in the nest cup again.I'm sure we are all waiting for Odin to appear and pose.
Good morning Clare.
Good morning to everyone, thank you Scylla for all the updates so far today. thought I would dip in before work.
I still can't believe the gorgeous Odin is home, although looking at the video of the fish delivery, I first thought OC, did anyone else think the same?! EJ did react differently which suggested it was Odin.