Today is a very, very sad First Anniversary:
©RSPB Loch Garten
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Odin's replacement continues to give cause for concern - however he did bring EJ a respectable half-fish yesterday, which she, for reasons known only to herself (but she couldn't have been starving exactly), declined. If GJ is trying to pull his socks up, this must have been discouraging.
He paid a short visit later, intending to incubate, but EJ returned and put paid to that idea (Birdie's video), and then he landed on EJ's back (another Birdie vid).
Later, he appeared again, seemingly suspicious that "his" nest was under threat, but nothing came of it.
As for EJ, she was on and off the nest quite a bit, plus she did some defending sitting down (Moffer's snap) - no intruders were seen.
The consensus seems to be that we would rather these eggs do not hatch, as GJ has been so inconsistent.
IMAGICAT
Aviemore ospreys page about an hour ago:
“...had one unringed male fish...”
And they added one comment too:
“The unringed male that fished early went directly south towards a well known nest site.”
She just flew, after getting up awkwardly. Back with chirps.
Whilst doing something else I keep hearing EJ and I have a quick look in case it is George bringing a fish I wonder if she would accept it if he did?
He never brings one at the right time, does he Patily? :(
Certainly doesn't seem like it
EJ backs off the eggs, flies a couple of circuits before returning to incubate.
Birdies LG DU update.
She got up calling, flapped and flew - I took my eyes off her to attend to something else and looked back to see the cam down, refreshed and she's back on the nest.
Adding in snaps.
Something caught her eye:
And after this shot of her returning I got the blue Carnyx screen:
She's gone again!
No messing, off like a shot - and this time she hasn't come straight back.
She's back, calling... indignantly?
I say SYAL with a VLC snap of our beautiful lady: