Sometimes when bad things happen it feels that life will never be the same again. Well very often that is not only not the case but good things come out it. After the sad loss of the eggs just over a month ago it seemed as if a gaping hole lay ahead. Well Loch Garten have responded magnificently and now users are experiencing a whole new view.
I say new but at the same time not really. Back in July 2009 at around the time this forum was created the camera on the Loch Garten nest broke down. Then the wide angle cam was used for the rest of the season. It was much loved and requested again but until 2015 we have not seen it again. Mind you the camera now is much better quality than the cam in 2009.
As some of you will know Hellgate Canyon had a disaster with their eggs in a hail storm and they are having to resort to similar things to keep the viewers occupied.
Writing in a recent post Erick Greene pointed out that to lose an adult is ten times as bad as to lose a clutch of eggs. To think that one point it seemed as if not only had Loch Garten lost a clutch of eggs but Odin too.
Now people are enjoying seeing Odin and EJ have some quality time together. Interestingly EJ has not has not gone on holiday like green J at that other nest.
There have been fallow years at Loch Garten before, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007. At the end of the day Odin an EJ have only got to get two chicks back to replace themselves. Last I heard one of those was crossing the border into France heading north with only 1,000 miles to go before arriving back at Loch Garten to take his dad to task for leaving alone for two days in 2013 and forcing him to fly south.
We are now about half way through the osprey season. It seems to go forever faster.
One lovely picture from 2009 of Garten. I wonder if she is out there somewhere?
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0432hr - Odin, I think!
Still there, appears to be sitting down in the nestcup.
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Still there!
A chirp from the nest, like a single alarm. I think that Odin left and returned, just going to see if I can tell...
Dang! He left @ 0508 during a browser-refresh, returned @ 0509hr:
I can hear the chaffinch but it's not at all close.
Good heavens scylla, I can barely tell that there's a nest let alone an osprey in there! :-P
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I THINK I can see a bird in that nest...?
Morning all
Got computer freeze several minutes ago, one good thing Chrome takes you back to where you were when it started :-) Will post now before I read back.
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Morning Mary et al. I'm afraid I must now get some sleep after having checked in! SYAL.
Thanks for trying, CC :-*
Good morning, MARY :-* I think you will enjoy today's DU OP.
Thank You Tiger for a thought provoking opening post, yes every cloud has a silver lining. A beautiful photo of Garten too, and one I have never seen before even although this is my fifth season.
Thanks too for all the overnight reports from Scylla, CC and Birdsong, and very different they are too but still extremely interesting as we have never seen any overnight roosting action before.