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/
Someone just flew up to the left perch. It caught my eye and can't see them now, and I'm doing Glaslyn so I'll check later.
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Aila is there now MC.
Birdies LG DU update.
scylla said:Someone just flew up to the left perch.
It was Aila. She stayed up there for a while and then flew back down, then off and back with a nice bunch of dried weed(?):
Looking at the nest now MC I think you'll find that it was dried bracken.
A lovely fish:
But Louis is mantling over it and having a peck at it now and then... and now he's flown off with it !!!
Mike B said:I think you'll find that it was dried bracken.
I couldn't remember the word, Mike! - thanks! ;)
Time for a break MC!!
Louis came back with the fish and was tearing chunks off it, I was posting elsewhere and when I looked back both birds had gone... but now dearest Aila is here again - fishless !!!
I fear Louis is not in the mood to share. He brought the fish to the nest twice, but not willing to give it up. Aila did try the seconded time, but Louis flew off and her after him. She came back without the fish.