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/
EJ is on the nest at LG. Ian
Looks like the camera is still on test, currently night cam on YouTube. Fingers crossed for go live tomorrow, here & at Aberfoyle. Ian
Probably a bit early to expect the camera, it is not yet on the Woodland Trust page but is still on YouTube. Ian
Camera is now live on the WT page. Let's hope the nest isn't empty until 10 April which is when Louis was first seen in 2017. Ian
Thanks Ian
There is an intersting blog from George Anderson on the WT site today, which I hope they don't mind me including the link to (see below). It covers some of the areas that Sheila & Tiger posted about on this thread on 17 March 2018. The blog confirms what I thought (in answer to the picture of the nest on the island also in this thread) that in 2017 there were three nests around Loch Arkaig. Ian
Excellent read.
The Loch Arkaig chat is now up & running again on the WT site. I recognised a couple of names from here. Ian
Thank you Ian I'd been looking for it to start.
Birdies LG DU update.
Night cam is on. The plastic strapping & cable ties really stand out compared to the day cam. As I found out on the Manton Bay thread, it is the best solution to keeping things together despite its less than perfect environmental credentials. Ian