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/
6:16AM they have left the nest
Louis with a fish! 6:22 am
Morning all - thanks for all the updates. Both on the nest just now
© The Woodland Trust, Loch Arkaig Osprey Project
A quick in 'n out - to say that major events at Loch Garten have prevented me from contributing this morning. I'm off for a nap now but hope to catch up later :)
The current scene on the nest is as per Karen's snap above, they might have hardly moved!
IMAGICAT
A pretty poor article about the return of the pair. Kenya!!
If anyone was in doubt that this is Louis they should look for the mating attempt sometime around 9.00. Trying not to be indelicate, Louis landed on top of Aila the wrong way round so he was nearer her head than her tail! They have subsequently mated with what looked like more success. Ian
Both on the nest just now. A couple of screen grabs
and another
Arrival:
Here's Louis at last, without a fish but posturing :)
Aila had just been shifting that lovely long stick at the back - she didn't shift it much!
Louis kept blurring with all his mantling: