The two highlights of yesterday were that a nice large fish was delivered in early afternoon (scylla's video) and then, GJ dutifully stuck on the eggs for about 3 hours while EJ took her time munching on the good sized fish. In fact, when she finally returned, she gave up the fishtail to him. The icing on the cake consisted of the sweet calls GJ tweeted to EJ (CC's video), letting her know he was ready to take a break. It took an hour from the first time he tweeted for her to return to her brooding duties, but he never left the eggs alone. Sheila indicated in the pic (info from Alison), that she appeared to be eating the fish in the tree we possibly referred to as the Fish Perch.
GJ also chased off an intruder, we don't know who, maybe BlueNW3? Perhaps he thought he better up his game since the day before EJ had been soliciting fish from NW3, who was perched nonchalantly in the cam tree for an hour that previous day (pic of NW3 from the VC).
Of course, before all the good stuff happened, the morning began with no-fish GJ taking over incubation accompanied by an earbashing from EJ until he finally left, hopefully with a good idea in his head, to be delivered 3 hours later. (pic by Mike)
Here she is at present on the quiet nest, the full moon way over to the right edge.© 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!
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8.12 Lovely sunny morning and EJ incubating her eggs, I wonder what today will bring.
Morning All. Thanks to everyone for all the updates and captures, also CC for a lovely intro.
Scene just now
The Willow Warbler loud and clear :)
IMAGICAT
Good morning all, looks like another nice day at LG. The lady awaits in all her splendour for the first visit from George. I hope he brings her something nice, fish I mean! Come on now fella we really like you so you have to keep to your part of the deal and look after our EJ.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
CATCHUP
EJ's quick comfort break, snapped by CC - just because ;)
Cam went down, I lost about 20 minutes due to timing of auto-refresher:
DAYCAM 04:19hr:
Another break:
All the daycam snaps need 'improving' but it takes too long (if I do it in a 'batch' it buggaz up the timeline for some reason).
Another frosty morning. Started calling:
Drooped, looked tired for a while:
Who goes there? This started a period of "disturbances":
Punctuated by lots of nibbling and scratching:
I saw a lone critter come out of the trees and wander around but it was too small to snap.
All quiet now, except for the WW.
Up! Shouted! Flew!
Back! Chirped! Back onto eggs.
Just saw a flyby behind the nest.
scylla said: Just saw a flyby behind the nest.
Right to left, not an osprey?
scylla said: Just saw a flyby behind the nest. Right to left, not an osprey?
Morning Scylla. A great Tit I think :o)
I was about to do a catch up, but you've already done it, and it was almost the exact same pics. Great minds and all that! :o)
Aviemore pond was reporting -3 this morning with very little activity. It's so much harder to fish when it's cold, and the fish 'go deep'