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/
Ian S said: George Anderson of the WT will be on the Radio Scotland programme Out of Doors at 06.30 (UK time) on Saturday 14 April. The programme will be available afterwards on the BBC iplayer. He will be "talking about our opsreys and the 1929 Arkaig reintroduction attempt". The failed reintroducton has also been covered earlier in these pages. Ian
George Anderson of the WT will be on the Radio Scotland programme Out of Doors at 06.30 (UK time) on Saturday 14 April. The programme will be available afterwards on the BBC iplayer. He will be "talking about our opsreys and the 1929 Arkaig reintroduction attempt". The failed reintroducton has also been covered earlier in these pages. Ian
Many thanks for this Ian. Here's the link - piece starts around 56 minutes in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ym4xp
For those of you who can't get the BBC iPlayer, here's another link to the story of the Captain Knight reintroduction project
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/03/loch-arkaig-ospreys-postcards-from-the-past/
(this may be the link posted earlier Ian??)
Not sure, but probably Louis has landed.
IMAGICAT
Louis brought a fish in about five mins ago, just got the tail end of Aila flying off with it, but for the hang of me I cannot get a clear snip of the fish (looks a reasonable size) going back on youtube...
Aila on the nest shouting, she does her fish dance
Louis arrives with a fair sized fish for her
Aila gets right in there and grabs it from him
And flies off to have her "breakfish"
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Louis keeps looking up
Aila on the nest just now. They really have been busy and getting their nest in order. It looks so cosy :-)
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I thought just that Karen.....ready for eggs???
Birdies LG DU update.
Looks like Louis eating with Aila standing guard. Something disturbed both of then a few moments ago. They were both mantling and looking skywards.
Aila is a regal bird
ENS at the moment
What does ENS mean? I keep seeing it here and can't work it out!
Liz B said: What does ENS mean?
What does ENS mean?
Hi Liz, Empty Nest Syndrome (I think)