The nest now with EJ asleep and the nest quiet. Will tomorrow bring another egg?© RSPB - Loch Garten and Carnyx Wild
Yesterday began with an intruder trying to mate with EJ [video by scylla] and a handsome suitor bringing a large fish for EJ but she told him off and he left. Then Odin hauled a half fish around while defending the nest so it wasn't until later that EJ managed to get a bite. However, the day progressed to a more routine domestic scene complete with mating, and head-trodding and stick deliveries on top of EJ. Odin seemed in a frenzy of building up the nest to the point of burying poor EJ. A guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do.... ;-*
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She's up:
What a lot of soft furnishings she's surrounded by. Has Odin made a particular effort to make the nest as comfortable for her as possible? I wouldn't put anything past him.
She is now back on the egg.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Odin's back
and flown. Quick visit
Birdie Num Num's brilliant DU summary 2017
He's back again...............and gone..
Hello, Odin, gorgeousness:
He's off:
Back again:
He has flown again.
It's looking increasingly windy on the nest. EJ continues to incubate, gazing off to her left.
Good morning everyone. Hope that pesky crows stay away and stop bothering the lovely pair. My, that is some nest, you can just about see the beautiful girl. Never mind she will be fine and cosy, the boy is doing good lookin after her. WIll we have another egg today?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
11.32 EJ gets up calling to Odin
and she leaves. Entre stage left....Odin, landing very carefully in the cup
11.34 EJ returns
11.37 After piping gently to him, Odin gets up
and despite an invitation fom EJ, Odin just touches on her back and flies away.
Lynn L said:WIll we have another egg today?
12.26 EJ leaves
less than a minute later, Odin lands
and settles down, tweeking the soft furnishings
Aviemore Ospreys facebook page had another post on this morning:
"Osprey dived at 6.30 this morning, and headed Abernethy way"