Yesterday brought 4 large fish, 2 from each parent, so lots of nest activity. Both EJ and Odin are seen tidying up the nest now, rather like starting to close up the summer cottage for the season (or should I say Love Shack hehe). All of us are especially enjoying this perfect Loch Garten nest this year, as we well know how things can and have gone sour so easily. Here is the obligatory nest shot for this morning for later comparisons.
Forgot to add that after returning from days away, it is harder for me to tell the difference between R & W now.
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I'm off to work shortly so I'll see you all later. It's still ENS.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
One juve has been on the nest calling crossly/pathetically in turn. I'm off now too. SYAL.
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Sleep well MC
Birdies LG DU update.
Morning all, bye CC, Scylla and Clare! Thank you CC for starting us off, and Scylla for the lovely vids. Have a good day at work Clare. I have every sympathy with CC over the id of Willow and Rowan having been away for a while! LOL
RowWill is calling on the nest and has been for a while now. Sound on VLC comes and goes, and is way out of synch. I am wavering on who it is, but whoever.. 08.33 has flown off (although I can still hear the sound loud and clear, so perhaps he flew minutes x n ago!)
Having called and wandered around the nest at 08.29 he starts to do a spot of HW
08.30
08.33 he flew off, ENS
and 08.36 I can still hear 'WillRow' calling loudly, although no one is in sight!
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Oh dear, the crying/calling sounds quite pathetic. Is it the sound generally, or a pathetic youngster hoping against hope for a fish? Still ENS
I have been away for ten minutes or so. There is no calling now. ENS. So is sound 10 minutes behind?
A tweety bird broke the silence. ENS
It's all very quiet... or has the sound gone completely? The grass is blowing in the wind, so I know the cam hasn't frozen.
09.53 We have company, but no sound. He has been calling.
I have named my snips 'Rowan', but I think it is Willow. Rowan has the dai dots! This bird does not!!
09.57
09.58 Giving it some wellie!
and after getting no response...
09.59 Willow has flown ENS