Not even the landing of a svelte, unringed (probably) intruder could mar a perfect Day1 for our healthy first bobblehead.
Here is BIRDIE's family portrait, snapped during the osplet's first feed:
And for those with no time to catch up on yesterday evening, here is a super photo posted by Operation Osprey on Facebook, of Odin trying to feed the osplet (which I have to admit I cannot see ;-D ).
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©RSPB Loch Garten ~ Operation Osprey
IMAGICAT
FISH @ 10.31. A dark fish, and hard to see
EJ has a bite or two first, and the feeds bobblehead
When little one is full, EJ eats some more :)
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
Feed over, EJ settles back down.
moffer said:FISH @ 10.31. A dark fish, and hard to see
It was! Looked more like a snake curled around:
I'm going to fill in the early morning (if poss), I'll insert whatever into my something-past-three post and notify here if anything spectacular/unusual happened :-)
Well done Odin. It didn't take him long to go for a fish did it? He has been busy what with defending the nest and fishing. Lovely to see the bobble head brain fed.
Alarm calls off cam from Odin
He's alarm calling now.
Odin has landed defending the nest
He grabs the leftover fish, and continues to call
On the nest continuing...
I'll go back to the early-morning as you, M, are covering current :-)
A pause in alarm calling, time for a nibbleafter and bout of calling, Odin has flown, with the fish