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/
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Birdies LG DU update.
Seems we missed some Loch Arkaig nest entertainment about 6 hours agoSee HERE courtesy of Liz Bracken
I managed to download several hours overnight but got no activity. Have given up now, due to the tech prob.
IMAGICAT
ENS and nothing, as you say MC, on scroll back.
Trying, I was unable to read Liz Bracken's post which you published a link to on the previous page. Please would you summarise it briefly if you have a few minutes? Many thanks.
Kind regards, Ann
Unknown said: Trying, I was unable to read Liz Bracken's post which you published a link to on the previous page. Please would you summarise it briefly if you have a few minutes? Many thanks.
Are you a Facebook member, GB? If so, you can apply to join the closed group Friends of Lock Arkaig Ospreys.
THIS is the exact post that Trying was referring to.
If you are not a Facebook member, I'll tell you now that Aila chucked a stick off the nest when Louis hadn't brought her his fish. (Just to save time, in case I'm asleep, plus my browser problem has raised its ugly head again so am having trouble loading stuff.)
Thanks, Scylla, for the links and summary.
We have a visitor sat on nest at Loch Arkaig... :-)
Fish delivery 08-09
I've been downloading Arkaig but will have to stop because it's quintupletting itself, cannot cope here! (Same with LOTL.)
This morning
Was this an intruder? Then Aila joined Louis to nag for a fish:
Aila got her fish after a long wait:
A different snap from Trying's:
Louis pottered and tended the nestcup, aww:
Later he brought in a stick:
Not doing any more !!!