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/
Aila(?) quietly incubating with her back to us
3 eggs and a Fish :-)
This pair seem to have got their act together much better than last year. Fingers crossed!
Excellent to have evidence of three eggs! Well done Aila and Louis!
I cannot find the laying time, as prior to 15:52hr the eggs, when sighted, were masked by nest material. At 15:52hr there was just a glimpse of three.
An incident ;)
I've seen a couple of glitches like this during my scrollings looking for egg-laying:
Aila brought this barky log:
Eggs obscured to various degrees:
IMAGICAT
But you haven't found the divine twig movement bit yet scylla :-D :-p
Aila incubating also with a frosted tail like EJ
Birdies LG DU update.
Louis is incubating He just stood up and t*here was a clear view of 3 eggs but, sadly, snip tool not quick enough to capture He is just settling down in this capture and if you look carefully the 3rd egg can be seen on R behind another egg Hope SCYLLA has a recording
C Arkaig OP
Trying said: But you haven't found the divine twig movement bit yet scylla :-D :-p
I've only looked for eggs, Trying - not been thru the whole day. If you want to tell me when it was I'll willingly try :)
patily said:the 3rd egg can be seen on R behind another egg Hope SCYLLA has a recording
Got it, PATILY, just doing another one to go with it, back soon :)