What an uneventful day we just survived :o We heard that the cold weather accompanied by high winds all day prevented many birds from carrying out their usual fishing routines, and GJ was among them... until evening, when he turned up for the first time on-cam with a very fine fat headless fish.
This could be compliments of MOFFER or LIMPY, who both posted a similar batch of snaps. It shows the girth of the fish very well.
The rest of the evening was plagued with cam up-n-downs but it seems to be steady now.
EJ has looked rather doddery, maybe the windiness kept her off-balance. She has settled with a good tail portion of fish for company, only the fin showing at midnight;
IMAGICAT
10:44ish, starting with tearing at stringy fish-bits
a flap about, and back to pick up the skin and tail-ends again (in a freeze)
defo not all that easy to get it down, but it shall nevertheless.
and i have no clue on what is lying there with the eggs in the cup.
2016: first time in history an Osprey nested in the NL. 2018: 2 active nests! 2019 a storm interferes. 2020: a third active nest in a tree!
She moves a stick and back down
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Up with a flap and she's flown, Fly past and back. A good head scratch, and the other side, back down.
I'd better check in because at the rate I'm catching up it'll be nightcam before I'm finished!
Hello to everyone who's checked in since I left. Super reporting and captures, thank you no-names :)))
I shall try to find the cuckoo but if your report, MOFFER, wasn't very close to the time it was performing, I'll probably fail.
skydancing!
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male has arrived on the nest
Alarm chirps from male and mantling
EJ isn't bothered by what ever
and after a minute or so on the nest, off he goes
Hu, i heard sky-dancing? EJ looked as surprised as i was, but she may have had other reasons. Asap i switched to their cam, GJ came flying in (from?...), the skydance-singing stopped, and a lil bit later some chirps “intruder” from GJ....
he was full-body alarm calling here, i just snapped at the wrong times.