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/
Relieved to see an empty nest
It appears to be wet in the Highlands this morning, EJ is hunkered down too. Perhaps when/if it drys up a little Louis will visit.
Hope so Mike...
I had this nest site, as one to visit when I was thinking of where to go...on my trip to Scotland this year, but as things are....maybe I will save the option until next year and hope for a better outcome.
Thanks TIGER What a beautiful picture from llast year with Lachlan So sad we won't be seeing that this year
Weather forecast shows rain likely to clear this area by lunchtime....but will be mid to late afternoon before clearing Loch Garten area.
07-46 Louis visited nest bringing in a twig, hanging around for about 3 mins (cant get a clear pic)
Hope these will suffice Trying.
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Birdies LG DU update.
Louis visited and laid in the nest cup for a while before flying off.
A night visitor around 3 30am...by scroll back.
There was also a handover of fish at about 05.25. Ian
Hazel b said:The Loch Arkaig ospreys feature as an advert on page 41 of the new (12 May to 18 May) Radio Times.
In the blurb accompanying the superb picture from last year of Louis delivering fish to the nest/Lachlan, it says that Loch Arkaig is where the last pair of ospreys in Scotland went extinct at the start of the 2oth century. I hadn't realized that