Many thanks to CarnyxWild:
IMAGICAT
Looking at her with the two of them you would think last year had never happened. It's so joyful to know that her long migration to Scotland was productive.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
On Twitter, VC is asking for suggestions for local names for the osplets. They appear not to be asking the local school this year, but spreading it to the wider audience.
I can hear the osplets 'chuntering' under EJ :)
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
So Laurel and Hardy are out of the question, then?
Plip plop, the sound of falling rain :(
I should have said hello to 25mac, thank you for the 10.32 update from Carnyx, and welcome!
LOL Clare! By George, I do believe you are correct! They aren't local names :)
Poor old EJ - it's raining.
Skye and Dulnain could be quite nice for a male and a female.
She's calling gently. Lovely.
Feeding time again:
Little One is in front:
Thinking and Googling. The Spey runs thru the Cairngorms, but RD has already used the name Spey for one of his late birds, however I have found something which I think is suitable should one of them be male, Deathain. The only pronunciation I can find is as it is written, which makes life easier. I am pretty sure that Odin was given his name, under the possibility he came Scandinavia, and Odin was a Nordic god!
"Don is Deathain in Scottish Gaelic and it refers to a river-deity, as of course does Dee. In modern Gaelic De is the same word as for God."
13.30 In getting side-tracked with the above I must have missed a fish delivery in the last minute. It is still stuttering, but EJ is feeding the osplets Little one is in the front!