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/
Thanks MIKE (I posted on here OK Went to post on DU and got, Access Denied???)
Ann
They do have measures to protect against martens at LA, obviously they don't work. Ian
Looks like Louis might be 'letting go'. He was off the nest for quite a long time, returned, left again and then moved a branch about before leaving again. Nest currently empty.
Birdies LG DU update.
Ahhhh!
Mike B said:Looks like Louis might be 'letting go'. He was off the nest for quite a long time, returned, left again and then moved a branch about before leaving again. Nest currently empty.
I'd guess we'll just see less and less of them Ian. Hopefully the indomitable Liz B will keep us in the loop with events off the nest. In the absence of a reason to stay they'll probably range wider and wider until the 'migration' mode kicks in.
The Loch Arkaig ospreys feature as an advert on page 41 of the new (12 May to 18 May) Radio Times.
Tiger Signature
No sign of either on the nest this morning and a four hour scroll back reveals no sign either.
Not seen either of them all night Mike :-(
Hopefully Liz B will post later if she sees them about.