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)
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I wonder if he's been scouring the neighbourhood for a female to casually mate with? He's still demonstrating he's in the mood, though his mate isn't exactly playing ball!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
GJ seems like a different bird today. Yesterday he bought a huge fish, incubated the eggs for hours and was generally attentive. Today all he wants is to mate - no fish, no incubating. Strange ...
Good to hear you EJ.
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EJ is calling again
EJ is calling now - hopefully a fish is on its way!
Yip ... FISH
19.43 FISH !!!!!!!!!! OMG look at the size of that!
FISH !!!!!!!!!!! Good boy !!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMAGICAT
Fish.
BIG Fish 19-43 BSTEDIT:I bow to those who have already posted such quality pics of the FISH DELIVERY.... and will refrain from posting any I captured.EJ certainly struggled to get her talons into that Fish.That must have been a real whopper when it was whole!!!
I can go and lay down now Twiggy has brought a fish. Good boy.