The season so far:
Glesni (Blue 12) and Monty arrived back within hours of each other on 1st April. Glesni laid three eggs on the 14th, 17th, and 20th April. Currently both adults are taking turns to incubate the eggs which are expected to hatch towards the end of May.
Some useful links:
Dyfi Osprey Webcam
Dyfi Osprey Project Website
ChloeB & Tigers’ Dyfi Nest Stats
Birdie Num Num’s Copyright Notices & Webcams List
Dyfi Osprey Project 2017 – March, April
Monty doing a Nora and nodding off....
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EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Glesni now back.
Birdies LG DU update.
Good morning, all. Aren't we all lucky to be able to admire both of these stunning ospreys in all their beauty?
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Facebook post re yesterdays intruder at Dyfi.
Very interest post Mike, thanks. I liked to hear what Emyr had to say about Clarach :-)
He's predicting an egg at 16 45!
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Dyfi has posted on FB. Clarach has laid her second egg:
"7 May 2017
Dyfi Osprey Project
CLARACH HAS LAID EGG NO 2!!
When a female osprey receives several reproductive cues at once, especially for her first ever breeding year, she may lay an egg. A kind of hormone egg that may or may not be fertilised.
When a female lays a second egg around 70 hours after the first, it means that these reproductive cues are strong, repetitive and consistent. In other words, a male is catching fish for her, defending the nest, bringing in nesting material and, of course, mating.
This egg is at the early end of the time window it takes a female to produce an egg - it means that she would have started to produce it immediately after laying the first.
These are good signs that she is in full breeding mode and is not just plopping out eggs like a Bingo machine.
All of us at DOP are utterly delighted, we're sure you are too :-)"
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
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