Just for BNN's reference, I have posted a Summary of yesterday's events (thankfully including scylla's correction of the Mystery). Through a couple cam outages, 2 fish were recorded as having successfully reached the nest. EJ did not have to tussle with Odin. And they had a nice chat at day's end. :)
Here is EJ at midnight - awake and alert with chicks as underneath as they can get.
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IR switched off:
Female cuckoo.
IMAGICAT
Off she flew @ 0317hr - no fly-off available:
Gone for 4 minutes!
During which time the osplets sat up and down, nothing spectacular.
Cuckoo going bonkers, and I heard that "echo" that CC referred to last night, I've heard it before - not sure if that's the female as it's a cackly call, unlike her usual trill.
I've been posting LG in the Cornish Barn Owls :( Not that there was a lot.
DAYCAM 0341hr:
Might it be quite a nice day to come?
#2 extricated himself from a melee and lay down - the white thing is something on the nest, not on his beak:
I'm looking forward to #2 lightening up a bit so we can see him better!
This was #2 :-)
Sounds like a small rattlesnake on the nest - a snake which squawks too :o
And then some chirpy sounds.
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I keep thinking that #1 is a fish - or rather that #1's stripe is a fish :-)
EJ got up and fiddled with a couple of sticks at the back of the nest, then stayed hunched over for ages:
Then she fiddled with some other small pieces of nest material, now she's back with her osplets.
EJ chirping!
She's up, still chirping...
FISH @ 0538hr !!!!!!!!!!
#2 was up before #1:
It's a very misty pic, I'm trying to improve it:
Headless:
Both ready 'n waiting:
Odin worked his way down the left side of the nest, nestorising, then found the ideal blocking position ;-)
Flew from that position:
#1 lost interest first:
Then resumed, feed went on with EJ's usual musical accompaniment, now she's tidying the edges of the nest.
Very difficult to see clearly.
She's still up, chirping her feeding chirps altho that's finished - osplets vocally energetic!