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Loch Garten Group Osprey Question and Answers 2015

Tiger
12/05/2015 16:19

This is a new thread to replace  Ospreys Q&A

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  • 12/05/2015 16:21

    Thank you, Tiger.  I'm posting a link to the second to last page of the previous thread as there is some interesting stuff on 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.

  • 12/05/2015 16:23 in reply to Clare

    Please would someone explain to me the circumstances around Olive ''just flying off''

  • 12/05/2015 16:28 in reply to Cirrus

    Ok I will bring over what I had just posted in the other thread in answer to choco's question and in case anyone else was wondering about the name 'imagicat'

    chocoholix said:
    It's for Tiger or ChloeB - Why is imagicat called imagicat?

    When I first got the domain I had never built a website before so was an unknown quantity and a learning project for me. The name is a bit of a hotchpotch brainstormer on my part. I thought about starting with an album for photos and was playing around with names hence the imag-i part or i-magic - eye magic-at. I liked it and it stuck :) Anyway, later on, after I had learned one or two (lots) of basics, some pointers from CC about HTML tables (thank you CC) and much experimentation and discussion it was decided it should become an osprey data site. Initially it was called ChloeB's osprey data then later ChloeB & Tiger's osprey data. I am still learning lots as I go along but the main thing is, it works....most of the time. A labour of love which is i-magic to me :)

    Nothing to do with cats :)

    ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data

  • 12/05/2015 16:28 in reply to Cirrus

    Unknown said:

    Please would someone explain to me the circumstances around Olive ''just flying off''

    Have you read the summary of the season 2003?

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  • 12/05/2015 16:31 in reply to ChloeB

    A question, please, for Osprey experts re EJ's behaviour on the LG nest.

    After the eggs were broken and she had some fish, she gradually started to spend more time away from the nest, and when on it, stood on the edge in the usual position.

    Now she has reverted to incubating the phantom egg more or less full time.

    I wondered if it was possible that because of the many recent intrusions, including a female, she is trying to demonstrate ownership of the nest - has this behaviour been observed elsewhere?

    Or is it that she is still hormonally unstable, and generally distressed by the situation?

    (I put this query on the old thread earlier this morning, and have now copied and pasted it here.)

  • 12/05/2015 16:35 in reply to Tiger

    Hazel b said:
    Have you read the summary of the season 2003?

    I can bet the loss of Henry's Darvic ring caused a huge amount of confusion!

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 12/05/2015 16:37 in reply to Oldshoremore

    Oldshoremore said:

    A question, please, for Osprey experts re EJ's behaviour on the LG nest.

    After the eggs were broken and she had some fish, she gradually started to spend more time away from the nest, and when on it, stood on the edge in the usual position.

    Now she has reverted to incubating the phantom egg more or less full time.

    I wondered if it was possible that because of the many recent intrusions, including a female, she is trying to demonstrate ownership of the nest - has this behaviour been observed elsewhere?

    Or is it that she is still hormonally unstable, and generally distressed by the situation?

    (I put this query on the old thread earlier this morning, and have now copied and pasted it here.)

    Paul Wildlifewriter wrote a blog about this recently. Hope it is helpful See  BATHTUB BLUES

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  • 12/05/2015 16:42 in reply to Tiger

    Hazel b said:

    Please would someone explain to me the circumstances around Olive ''just flying off''

    Have you read the summary of the season 2003?

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    Thank you very much TIGER

  • 12/05/2015 16:49 in reply to Cirrus

    Unknown said:
    Thank you very much TIGER

    In fact the situation is fairly similar to that existing now except that no eggs were laid. 

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  • 12/05/2015 16:52 in reply to Tiger

    Let's hope this situation doesn't finish with EJ leaving the nest permanently.

    Is there a life history of Olive anywhere?

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.