It falls to me to start the new thread as we watch and wait with EJ.
Right now she is fast asleep, head under her wing, in all the glory of fuzzy cam
It's now more than two days since she last had a fish from Odin. Yesterday he paid two very brief visits, but arrived empty taloned both times. Why is he not fishing for his mate? We simply do not know.
And still EJ remains magnificently dedicated to her one remaining egg, and has so far resisted going fishing for herself. A zoom yesterday did not reveal obvious damage, but surely previous kicking and three days on the rim of the nest will have taken its toll? Is it trauma that is keeping her brooding, or simply habit? Or is there still a tiny chance something has survived against all the odds? We simply do not know.
All we can do is watch and wait. And so we do. On with another day fellow Ospreyholics!
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EGG NOT TOUCHED BY ODIN.
She's back too soon again! Calling. With fish tho!
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Hopeless view of egg but it doesn't look good:
??? What on earth is upsetting her at the moment :-(? Has she just realised that the egg is too badly damaged - poor thing?
Doasyouwouldbedoneby
I'm not nagging ;-) but I do hope we'll get a blog describing some of the off-nest goings-on this past couple of days.
What happened there? EJ didn't seem to be off the nest long enough to eat all that fish. Did she bring it back to eat or what?
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Could it be an intruder so not watching just reading all your posts very grateful. Is she still shouting and sitting on fish and egg
chocoholix said:I wonder if the heroic splodgologists can work out from the zoom yesterday, which might be the egg that EJ is still incubating? Just a thought :)
21.4 egg no 2, the darker one.
25.4 egg no 3 is on the left, the very pinkish one.
So on revision, the egg that EJ is sitting on could be egg no 1.
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