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/
Hope springs eternal...and off he goes with the fish!!
Birdies LG DU update.
This morning so far (if my recordings can be trusted!).
Early bird! I couldn't tell if an unwelcome event brought her to the nest.
She waited all this time:
Louis flew off and returned with a big clump, which he mantled over for some time:
Then flew around for another mating:
Off again and back with another, smaller, fuzzy clump:
Aila had a sit-down in the nestcup:
She flew off over the perch:
He behaved as tho he'd brought a fish but I don't know yet...
Whatever it was, he took it with him:
Aila passed the time and flew off:
(All of a sudden, for this snap, it says it's too big!)
I wonder if it's because the colour densified a bit, therefore more pixels?
Whatever this was, this was the second time in fairly quick succession that he brought and took it away:
More passing the time until she flew:
Aila brought a strange little item:
Louis brought nothing - for Aila, anyway:
Aila's done a lot of pottering, then here's another big clump from Louis!
His piece de resistance up to that point:
I don't think anything's changed since then, except I'm in a huge buffer situation.
I had to resize all the snap from the first time I mentioned it, I shan't be embarking on this exercise again! :)
No fish, unless I've missed it.
IMAGICAT
Camera is having a major buffering session at the moment, the WT tekkies are on the case. Ian
Suspicious behaviour in the nestcup.
And an egg appears :)
Great scylla, been eggspecting it :)
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Looks a nice red/pink one.
Sorry I gazumped you with my snap, Starling, I'd had the edit page open waiting for it.
Here's the video at last - she's more low-key than some other layers, and I'm not sure that she remembers what it's all about ;)
Great news...thanks for the Pic and Vid Starling and Scylla :-)
Mike B said:I'm not sure you are going to be far out Ian.
I'm not sure you are going to be far out Ian.
Well done Ian. Good to see.