DAILY UPDATE ~ Loch Garten nest - Tuesday, 17 May 2016

moffer said:

EJ has flown.....and back quickly.

EJ bravely took to the windswept skies ;-D

But her return was a let-down, I have nothing between this:

and this:

Then she fed the osplet with her usual lovely pipey chirps :-*

Hmm, your pics weren't there, MOFFER, when I started my post, which then took about 5 minutes to register >:(

I'm sure it's an heretical thought, but we're fast approaching the stage where I'd prefer the other 2 eggs not to hatch... unless someone can guarantee a season of fish-glut.

Heavy raindrops :-(

EDIT - stopped?

is egg 2 now a couple of days late given EJs usual hatching timescale. egg two now on 37 days?

egg 3 should hatch tomorrow sometime?

Hi Lmac. I think that #2 may fail as it did in 2011. The year of Tore and Bynack. by my reckoning #3 should hatch in the next 48 hours. We may even 'do a' Manton Bay, and have two eggs hatch on the same day.

Three and a half hours to go to make second egg 37 days old.  EJ's second egg usually hatches at 35 days - 2012 was 36 days.  We can only watch and wait to see what happens!

You have all been giving answers to the question I posed this morning about the second egg. Thanks for confirming what I was thinking. It is late now for sure. Could it be to do with the fact that EJ is getting older? As long as the one osplet survives it will be better than last year.