As if she has not to endure enough in her long life, EJ is now in the predicament of having laid an egg (scylla's video) in front of poor Paul's eyes without having found a suitable companion. She has not incubated the egg since she laid it at around 2:25 am, choosing though to guard it rather than abandon it to go fishing. We have no idea if it is viable, and where the two males are in the fish delivery department (RSPB FB post). Indeed EJ herself may be wondering. In fact, one or two of the males showed up for nookie (not Newman? and Newman?), and puzzled over the appearance of the Egg, but no fish was forthcoming despite her nagging. EJ was left standing on the nest next to the egg in windy weather (scylla's vid), which is where she is now ever since morning. Quoting scylla,
scylla said:You're not alone being confused... hold hands!
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He looked so like Odin at one point, while at the far edge, I nearly fainted, and someone had phoned me and wouldn't let me concentrate and get on, it was awful!
Live snaps:
Unedited video:
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Flapping again - and shouting by the look of it.
CLASH! With BR intruder???
EJ dived at the edge before the intruder had quite landed:
EJ flying off in top-right:
I thought I saw a blue ring Scylla but couldn't say for certain... All happened quite quick!
Definitely SAM - but I've crashed, am having to change to Opera. I'll slot relevant stuff into above post.
Cam went down, when it came back up EJ was back on the nest, thank goodness :o
scylla said:Cam went down, when it came back up EJ was back on the nest
No, the cam went down after EJ returned :)
She looks absolutely fine - I think she anticipated too fast for the attacker ;)
A VLC-with-brightening-settings:
I can't do retrospective snaps from VLC as I am not recording with it - my CPU struggles at 100% when downloading, recording, and editing.
She moved a stick and had a slowish flap:
and a preen:
She's picture-perfect ;)
It's been quiet.
Absolutely no chance of getting a ring number off that intruder, but maybe someone will recognise it?
In the meantime, another snap of our heroine, who is calm and dignified: