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/
Forced to use my old laptop and it takes forever and a day to post a capture
Louis has now flown
WT Loch arkaig
Louis arrives with a large fish which Aila grabs before flying off.
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Birdies LG DU update.
For what it is worth, today was my (uneducated) guess on the WT chat page for the first egg. Ian
I'm not sure you are going to be far out Ian. She keeps going into that nest cup as if to settle and then frustratingly walks out! She's been doing that for a day or so now.
My early morning report/s can't be trusted. Some very strange goings-on today, with non-sequiturs following browser refreshes.
Look at the times (if you don't mind ;) ):
And please see before and after the refresh in this under-20-second vid:
I've rebooted the laptop, if there's problem at my end that's all I can do.
IMAGICAT
20.05 - Louis brings in a fish for Aila, she doesn't even need to grab it from him as he lays it on a plate for her. Ian
Nice fish that...hope someone has grabbed a vid...so we can show it to Junior at Loch Garten...as 'This is how should be done'
Aila on the nest. Raining slightly. She must be due to lay an egg and there are comments about her seeming to try yesterday.
EDIT. Scrolled back 30minutes when she was off the nestcup and no sign of an egg.
Aila standing on a rather windy nest
Hi Patily - yes it does look windy here.
Louis has just arrived with a fish in talon
© The Woodland Trust, Loch Arkaig Osprey Project
At first when arriving he was alert but remains standing looking around holding on to the fish.
Hopefully he will hand it over soon as Aila keeps looking at his feet.