Well, this DU intro is all about Junior. Our new male certainly has a way with twigs and branches, as seen in Moffer's early morning snap below. In fact, it turns out looking like our Junior may likely be last season's Twiggy, underlined by the fact that Limpy has called him Twiggy all along, and scylla finally did an empirical study of head markings. He also seems to be one of those fathers that needs to be pushed off the eggs (scylla's vid), and that was after only bringing clumps, not fish. After a couple intruder alerts, Moffer posted this wonderful shot of him yawning as EJ calls for a meal (that she hadn't had yet). It was only after 1 pm that he circled over the nest with a headless fish before finally delivering it to EJ 5 minutes later. Floating names for this new male brought out the origin of Odin's name. Sheila offered a note from Alison on Junior's whereabouts off the nest from LG's perspectives. Growing consensus that he's worthy has many wanting to see him properly named, especially since he has a dedicated thread here. EJ had been dozing on the nest, as seen below, but right now she is sorting her feathers after having been awakened by something a little while ago (next post).© 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!
Imagicat || Tiger's links || 2022 LG Obs
Thinking about the mating (non) performance over the past couple of days, I do hope that EJ and Junior are not out of sync because she started her season (mating with various males) so much earlier.
IMAGICAT
He's flown.
And here's EJ already, piping. They do seem in-sync in this respect :)
He's back for the fish tail... Got it at last!
9.55 junior leaves 9.56 She's back with her fish tail
and starts to eat it on the nest Back he comes
Tug -o-fish. Junior takes it.
He leaves
He's back with the tail.
10.02 Someone flew over the nest. No alarm calls so it must have been Junior
seconds later he landed, looked around and flew off
moffer said: 10.02 Someone flew over the nest. No alarm calls so it must have been Junior
I checked that because I thought he may have flown in to ward off the fly-byer - but it was him, you can see the fish-tail :)
Why is she up and calling?