.How will today start, after the quite thick snow of yesterday? Can't tell yet, EJ sits awake on a glary nest, the background is still pitch black.
I think my cam has been frozen, am just going to check the post-midnight footage.
EDIT - I've been frozen since before midnight :o :o :o Auto-refresh somehow got switched off.
Labour-saving for the moment, I suppose.
IMAGICAT
EJ sits and waits for fish. I don't think there will be one today honey.
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What an amazing bird. EJ has protected her eggs in all kinds of weather today with only a short break and no fish. I suppose it has just been too difficult for Odin to fish. Let's hope for an improvement tomorrow although the weather forecast is rather gloomy.
21.20 Night cam on
I'm off now. Good night all.
Just popped back to say it looks like blizzard conditions on the nest. Poor EJ head down, covered in snow.
It's getting worse by the minute :(
What an incredibly tough bird she is. I know she demonstrated her strength and endurance last year but this is nearly as hard to watch. I hope they get a break in the weather tomorrow so they can at least eat.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Evening all!
O Lordy, what our EJ is having to put up with! Good job those feathers are so waterproof and insulating, but even so it's not the kind of weather we would hope for our ospreys breeding.
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She looks up briefly to greet another torrent of snow :((
She gets rid of some of the snow: