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/
scylla said:@ 07:54hr Osprey on the nest.
Not "one of ours", IMHO, but a liddle doll ;)
I hope I'll do a video later, but need to finish yesterday, which could take ages, and need to sleep, it's past my bedtime :-/
S/he was on the nest about 40 minutes, moved a stick, almost nestcupped ;)
IMAGICAT
Scylla, I think this second vid is Aila & I think it was also Aila that chased off the female with the fish. I think the bird with the fish is the intruder from last week. I am convinced the last bird to arrive yesterday was Louis. The one I have no idea about is the first arrival yesterday, who could (for me anyway) be the same as the one on the nest earlier this morning. Ian
PS - I am off out now, let's see what the rest of the day brings
Thank you for your thoughts, Ian - I'm not even trying to ID them yet - having said that, I did ID one as Aila... but I'm hardly conscious ;)
There was an awful lot of buffering during this morning's early osprey visit, I've added the video to the pics above.
No-one here and no-one on the nest all day since late morning :o
Except the Robin (just to prove I've checked thru) for a few seconds:
Major birling around lunchtime and briefly thru the day.
I can't understand it - all those birds this morning and then none?! Surely if any were the owners of the nest they would have been back nestorising? :-/
Ian S said:..... let's see what the rest of the day brings
..... let's see what the rest of the day brings
Nothing!! Ian
Louis?
We have a zoomer on duty!
I think maybe so!
oops gone 7:02
A short zoom practice:
Dewy or rainy back:
Whoever it was (and I'm not at all sure that was Louis) has flown.