Well, it certainly was another exciting day at the nest. While we are delighted that Junior is stepping up to the plate, we couldn't figure out how he been able to deliver two good sized fish within about half an hour. After much speculation about where he could have gone to fish and have time to catch and bring another, RSPB Loch Garten FB posted that an intruder male had brought the first trout (BNN's video), just before the 2nd delivery by Junior! Junior's looked much better, too, and she looked like she wanted to take it off him.© RSPB - Loch Garten and Carnyx Wild_______________________________________The Daily Update is for recording nest events only, allowing for banter, though—any questions or conversations can happen on the Osprey Chat thread. Thank you!
The events surrounding the two fish an intruder are still unclear. Then of course there were the subsequent "trout variety" discussions: Blue trout, sea trout, brown trout or rainbow trout??? It is a mystery to me, though whatever the first one was, it did seem like a tough tear for EJ.
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Junior in for mating. Standing looking out from right side, she's demanding fish.
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He flew.
I don't think she was up for this:
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
I really must adjust my sound....I have the stream for Loch Garten running in the background with sound up.....and the current wind noise could be mistaken for waves rolling in and caressing a beach.
Then an Osprey calls ... and I jump back to reality, and wonder if the midges are around yet :-DSeems Junior isn't one for early morning fishing!!
Morning all - thanks, as always, for the invaluable pics, vids, and meticulous reporting. Just a not very serious suggestion:- in view of Junior's herculean logging efforts, perhaps we should call him The Woodsman.....
Intruder ???
Catchup (I think scanning probs were caused by a problem with my network, not the cam.)
0352 Sound judder - 0418 EJ poops in rain - 0444 EJ starts calling quietly - 0501 Daycam - 0513 Junior lands on EJ's back but she's too wet to mate ;) He flies off - 0600 EJ stretches and checks eggs, she's happy with them - 0604 EJ goes pale
DAYCAM 05:01hr:
Junior looked very nice, I thought, in the early morning light:
He blurred after this:
Junior wanted to incubate more than go fishing, even more than mate!
MOFFER's snaps
It wasn't me !!!
She's off:
She landed on one of the trees behind the nest, slightly left of centre:
Back again:
Alarm chips from EJ.
Quick catch up from earlier.
EJ preening
A visit from Junior, didn't go as he plannedEJ's alarm calling and a flap