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/
Hi, If you want to read a bit about when they first got together.
Loch Arkaig Osprey Project 2017
© Scottish Wildlife Trust - Loch of the Lowes
Thank you Starling!
A nice sunny day at Loch Arkaig - is this going to be the day :-)
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EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Wonder how Lachlan is doing?
George from WT has made a brilliant comment on their chat page which is:
"Just to confirm that if no ospreys appear on the nest by April 10 we will use glove puppets, like last year"
Ian
A little while ago we had a Robin singing unseen on a branch of the nest tree:
Unseen apart from a glimpse of its fly-up :)
IMAGICAT
The Robin pooped (I insist ;) ) @ 20:03:08, it stopped singing a few seconds later, and I heard its feet take off @ 20:03:48. Thank you, Robin :-*
It's been like this for hours:
The snow became thicker, still very fast and slanting.