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/
At least it looks like it may have stopped raining here....for now, and hopefully longer.
Whoever is incubating has their back to the camera and they look dry
Louis arrives with twiggy branch Puts that down and decides to move one on the other side of the nest and barges into Aila as he goes across so that she has to getup and reposition herself He is now putting the stick behind her Just generally fiddling with moss and bark, practically sitting on his wife who has to re-wriggle herself He really is a lovable clown Now he has flown and leaves Aila in peace
Just caught the 'departure' Patily.
Off he goes.
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Birdies LG DU update.
16.35 - Third (I think) fish of the day delivered by Louis. Ian
Aila looks wet. When I looked in the stream was in night mode about 4 hours ago and she looked to be covered in hail?.
Good Morning All
Aila incubating. She is a very pretty Osprey is she not! :-)
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Yes, MARY She is lovely Very odd I had to refresh as when I first looked in it was still showing nightcam Dozing
You will have to do that Patily. It's a YouTube system and you need to drag the red line along to the far right. It's what allows us to scroll back.
I did that MIKE and it was still nightcam???