No time to prepare a detailed synopsis of yesterday's discouraging events, which included matings and intrusions (with support from male) but no fish, despite EJ leaving the nest and her egg for a couple of quite long periods.
This sums up most of our feelings (me having said that I was not worried):
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Edit
A couple of videos added to yesterday's DU, covering EJ's long break during which the male defended, and EJ tending the nestcup followed by a quick fly-around.
IMAGICAT
Egg is home alone. EJ has been off the nest for just over an hour and a half.
I hope she's got enough sense to go fishing, so that she can get her strength up. If she does mate and lay another egg, she'll need lots of energy to care for her chicks...... but she'll need a mate who goes fishing for that to be successful!
Back with a flap, standing over egg looking up, no sign of fish...
EDIT:
It was a fuzzy fly-down and landing:
EJ is back, looking all around her:
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
scylla said: Back with a flap, standing over egg looking up, no sign of fish...
She's off again
Flown:
and back
Back again!
Gone again!
What could bring that on?