Loch Arkaig web cam: It will be switched back on next month, and should be found here
Here are "All the best bits from the Loch Arkaig Pine Forest osprey camera, Summer 2017, in 2.5 minutes", from the Woodland Trust.
Here is the RSPB Forum for the 2017 Season.
2008 A pair may have started nesting at Loch Arkaig
2013 Chick White KL(09) f, hatched 2009 Loch Arkaig, Inverness seen in Senegal, 2011 & 2012, 2016 by Rutland team and Chris Wood. 2013 is the likely first breeding year at Bassenthwaite of White KL(09) and unringed male
2015 No chicks
2016 No chicks
2017 The nesting platform used by the birds for more than ten years has been rebuilt almost from scratch as, with the birds adding new material every spring, it was beginning to sag under its own weight
Unringed m 10 April named Louis m arrived. Inconclusive whether same 10-yr male, but later concensus was that he was a first-time breeder
Unringed f 30 May new unringed female accepted by Louis
4 May 2017 WT named her Aila
10 May 17.20 Egg #1 Arrives with a grunt from Aila!
22.39 Owl on the nest. Spooked Aila who flew off. A slow start but the action is here.
13 May 19.26 Egg #2 - speckled
Egg #3
18 June First chick hatched
18 June 17.13 Second chick seen struggling out of shell
22 June Two chicks alive, just.
One chick survived, and was ringed 22 or 23 July. Blue JH4(17) m, Lachlan
At 35 days old it has a body mass of 1,305g and wingspan of 291mm.
9 August Lachlan fledges unexpectedly
The Loch is home to otters (three orphans were released in the late autumn 2017) Pine marten have been seen on the nest. WTE and Osprey breed. It's about time I tried to get back there!
Where is Loch Arkaig?
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
There was an article in the Press and Journal which I am not used to accessing, and having done a search I can't find the actual link, but more platforms/nests are being erected in the area.
WINGING IT: Lewis Pate and Justin Grant from the Woodland Trust have built two platforms 80ft up in the Lochaber pine forest in the hope they will be used by ospreys Daring climbers have scaled to 80ft up the pines at Loch Arkaig to build two osprey nests in a bid to attract more birds to the north.
Lewis Pate and Justin Grant from the Woodland Trust built the two structures at the Lochaber pine forest this week, taking almost three hours to build each structure.
The nest platforms are constructed by weaving branches together with fence netting. They need to be solidly meshed with the pine’s branches in order to withstand high winds.
Lewis Pate, a field contractor for the Woodland Trust, said: “It is quite a tough job making a platform. You spend a few hours up the tree and it was particularly cold this week.
“We just hope our two new platforms are as enticing as the original one. This is five-star accommodation for ospreys.”
Two more nests are scheduled to be built in the forest during the summer months and are are expected to be fully operational by early 2019.
Another article here
It really is a great view from this webcam.
Fantastic!!
The WT chat, Cath (not sure if this is the same person as Cathy from this thread) & George Anderson, are saying that a couple of locations in Fort William are showing footage from the camera on screens. That sounds like an excellent way of engaging with the local community. Ian
No Ian, we are two different people. I've just read that, it's great to see how involved WT are in Ospreys and their welfare.
Nest and cam are ready and waiting - will Louis and Aila return this year?
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The camera has zoomed in, I don't recall this happening last year, but could be wrong. Can anyone remember if it ever zoomed in during 2017? Ian
Don't think so, maybe this is one of the surprises George mentioned.
Ian S said: The camera has zoomed in, I don't recall this happening last year, but could be wrong. Can anyone remember if it ever zoomed in during 2017? Ian
Ian - I definitely cannot remember it zooming in last year. Well not this far anyway :-)
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