I think I will start MAY, 2016 quite simply with a current snippet of the LOCH GARTEN NEST with EJ quietly incubating her three eggs.
From Facebook DYFI OSPREY PROJECT
Good afternoon. June love your beautiful coloured birds! Great news Monty and Glesni have a chick! They are brilliant parents as they all are. Very sad news that Lake District Osprey project have lost 2 chicks to magpie attacks :( Very sad news indeed. White 14 seems to be touring the lakes hopefully looking for a potential nesting site. Would love him to pair up and find his own nest and breed next year :)
June, I, too, love your colourful birds!
Willow, I agree that the Magpie predation of chicks at Lake District Osprey Project is very sad and I fear for the third chick, too. It seems that this is the first recorded occurrence of predation by Magpies of Osprey chicks, according to Osprey expert Roy Dennis. But with luck, they may do better next year. Still, it is good news that things seem relatively calm at several other nests, especially at Dyfi and at Loch Garten and long may it last!
Kind regards, Ann
Good/afternoon/evening Willow. Thanks for your short but very informative post. I will make notes.
Ann that is what I was thinking. If LD cannot protect 2 how can they protect the third?
Evening, June. Yes, Magpies are intelligent birds and I doubt they will miss another opportunity, unfortunately. On the other hand, we can hope the chick grows rapidly and soon becomes too large to be viewed as a easy meal by a Magpie!
Next for color I need some flowers. Unfortunately with this new computer I have not yet found a way to make it accept either my card of photos or the program for photo management. I fear windows 10 will not accept my old software and all my photos will be lost forever. I need to get back to the store to see what can be done about it. I thoroughly hate his whole computer system.
To make a long story short, I don't have any photos of my own to post.
Manton Bay female feeding her THREE babies.
From Facebook
HELLGATE NEST, Missoula, Montana, USA