DAILY UPDATE ~ Loch Garten nest ~ Friday, 22 June 2018

Yeah, Moffer. I thought I heard a faint call, and then she sat bolt upright as she is now. Crazy how we all just love seeing her, no? <3© RSPB - Loch Garten and Carnyx Wild

Takes a poop (missed the cap!) and cleans her talons/beak.© RSPB - Loch Garten and Carnyx Wild

Hi everyone 

Good to see EJ is around and on cam :-)

On phone so not sure if I imagined it or not but was there a post about EJ being attacked by a duck, well there is a feature in the Daily record today showing photos of an unringed Osprey being attacked by a duck at Rothiemurchus, definitely looks unringed in photos, I posted on chat thread.  Or is there a rogue duck attacking all Ospreys at Rothiemurchus . A bit of a coincidence or am I just an old sceptic :-)

Hi Mary, the photos were taken on Monday and were posted on facebook (Andy Howard Nature Photography) as being EJ, however Rspb blog today says it is not her...

fb: "We’ve spent the past two mornings at the Osprey hide at Rothiemurchus, Nr Aviemore (I’m still in the hide right now!). Action had been rather dramatic with the mallards attacking the Ospreys, poor EJ from Loch Garten got more than she bargained for when she ended up yesterday when she ended up with a duck on her back!" https://www.facebook.com/170966596349739/posts/1646893678757016/

LG today: "We were told of a pretty comical encounter with an Osprey at Rothiemurchus fishery on Monday, although at first it was thought EJ was the osprey in the original images, turns out it isn't her and is actually an unringed bird" https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/community/placestovisit/lochgartenospreys/b/lochgartenospreys/default.aspx

Thanks very much 25Mac as usual I am behind the times with everything lol.  

Obviously it took longer for the Daily Record to get hold of the news which doesn’t surprise me lol. 

Appreciate your reply with all the info. 

A new pic from this morning:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2047540238848046&set=a.1515774982024577.1073741846.100007762680502&type=3&theater

A fabulous photo of EJ 25mac thanks for posting.    You should have had Miss Marple for your name as you seem to be able to find all these different posts from different places, talk about sleuth lol...

BTW love your super duper frame on the openIng post SCYLLA.  A real cracker. :-)

Good afternoon, all :)

Great to see you back at last, MARY !!! :-*

Thank you all, and thanks to VALERIE and 25MAC for the external reports! :)

moffer said:

11.15 GJ FINALLY pushes him off! Clueless.

As I was scrolling down thru that batch of snaps, I was thinking "He's clueless, just like he was with EJ's egg!" - so I did laugh when I met your remark ;-D

Hi MC. What are you doing up at is time of day.?