Loch Arkaig web cam should be found here - at the moment is is showing a video of the history of Aila and Louis, and I assume it will be live later in March. It's worth watching!
2008 A pair may have started nesting at Loch Arkaig
2009 Chick White KL(09) f, hatched 2009 Loch Arkaig, Inverness seen in Senegal, 2011 & 2012, 2016 by Rutland team and Chris Wood.
2013 The likely first breeding year of White KL(09)f and unringed male at Bassenthwaite
2015 No chicks
2016 No chicks
2017 The nesting platform used by the birds for more than ten years has been rebuilt almost from scratch as, with the birds adding new material every spring, it was beginning to sag under its own weight
Unringed m 10 April named Louis m arrived. Inconclusive whether same 10-yr male, but later consensus was that he was a first-time breeder
Unringed f 30 April new unringed female, named Aila, accepted by Louis
Aila laid three eggs, two chicks hatched but the second which had struggled out of the egg, died. Blue JH4(17)m was named Lachlan.
2018 Both Aila and Louis returned, three eggs were laid, but on 11 May in the dark hours of the morning Aila left the nest to stretch her wings and a pine marten appeared, and took one of the eggs. Five minutes later, with Aila not having returned, the pine marten removed the second egg. At 03.52 the pine marten returned and removed the third and last egg.
Aila and Louis remained together, bonding, for the rest of the season, tending and defending the nest.
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On another nest, ca 2km away, a single chick was raised, Blue JH5(18), with an upside down ring. - does anyone know the sex?
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On 21 January 2019 BBC News reported the death of Blue JH3(17)m, named Pean after another local glen. Pean, hatched at another Loch Arkaig nest off the Woodland Trust land,.had been found on 28 December at the Marjal Pego-Oliva Nature Reserve, between Alicante and Valencia. He had been electrocuted. A sad start to the year.
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
.The snow here is horizontal in the wind!
Birdies LG DU update.
Look who appeared moments after daycam this morning! (The scene was very pale indeed and I spent hours and hours ;) trying to improve it, as well as upping the volume of the Robin's song whilst reducing the wind... and it's cut down from the 7+ minutes... so you gotta watch it!)
The song (unreduced in length) before and after - it was originally hardly audible.
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I caught a rainbow this morning
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Alison I bet Louis hopes he catches a Rainbow too, a Rainbow Trout Ha Ha.... Let the roller coaster of the Osprey season begin.......
Can't wait until the first one thuds down..... I wonder who that will be, Maya, Lassie or who!!!!
It would be wonderful if they ALL made it back
Very good, Mary!
The anticipation is mounting here...
MaryGK said:
Oh that really is too awful of you, MARY :-* I've just come here, at nearly half-past-three in the morning, to post that very same snap, which I calculate was at about noon.
I wonder if mine will come out bigger? I'll try the usual drag & drop:
At the time of typing in the posting box it looks the same size as yours...
This is your snap, MARY - I clicked on it to enlarge (it takes its time!) then saved it, and this is it, dragged & dropped the same as mine: