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/
I've no idea why they're coming out so big :-/ I am downloading the Arkaig stream but it is not 100% reliable, however I did get 2 6-hour sessions, which is the max you can get from YouTube till you have to start it off again.
The next session only lasted 2h06m and the next one only 15 seconds! But that showed us an unpleasant night in progress:
IMAGICAT
Seen on the nest this morning. Buzzard??
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Birdies LG DU update.
© Scottish Wildlife Trust - Loch of the Lowes
You are right Starling!! Sorry. I did and then found what I'd done wrong!! and deleted it!
Mike B said:
That's a brilliant capture, MIKE :o
I hope we don't get any Osprey landings as brief as this was, as I will never find them and I wouldn't have found this without absolutely knowing it was there and without your guidance :(
Scylla I like your sizes of snaps as they show up better that the small size in my post. I will try and drag and drop method next time to see if any bigger.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
MARY - I saved your pic in the original size by clicking on it first, then it enlarged and I saved it and dragged that version into RF.
It's snowing in the nest area and there's been a lot of "mist" blowing by.
Thanks for the buzzard picture..I spent ages trying to find it and failed. Very stormy now and sleet on the nest brrrr
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