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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EJ's feather duster impression
EJ calling!
FISH
Fish ............flyover
Where has he gone with it ????
EJ has flown off after him
She's off
Did Junior do a circuit with his FISH ??? !!!
Editing in snap:
And disappear off the face of the earth ???
EJ has flown and returned and settled onto the eggs.
IMAGICAT
EJ's back shouting for the fish
I think we better have a good look at who lands and be sure it is not the intruder who landed just after 13:00 yesterday!! :-D
So a fish and either one teasing her or else the male who may have just caught it and is off to eat the head as by the looks of him this morning, he hasn't eaten either.
I have just looked at Moffer's captures and the fish looks headless to me so I think the male has eaten.
So what is all this about???
He's redeemed himself - must have eaten some of the head :)))