3rd Egg for Mrs. G.
© BYWYD GWYLLT GLASLYN WILDLIFE
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Birdies LG DU update.
Oh she certainly is Sandra.....
There was an intruder land on the nest when Mrs. G got up to show her third egg.
Couldn't see if it was ringed or not.
Splendid work, MARY! I can't contribute anything because my cam was stuck on the dawn buffer all morning :(
Just another splodgology snap:
IMAGICAT
© Scottish Wildlife Trust - Loch of the Lowes
Before an after this Mrs G on the eggs and panting in the heat
20 APRIL HIGHLIGHTS
This is all my uninformed interpretation!
At this time Aran had not been seen so the camperson had a scan around:
MrsG got a bit restless, she had a flyaround and back to her eggs:
She spent quite some time shifting the soft nest material around her, then at last Aran turned up - but not with a fish, it was a big bunch of more soft stuff:
Aran took over egg duty and MrsG stood by looking fed up:
MrsG flew off and eventually returned to the perch, where she expressed her sadness and disbelief at Aran's neglect:
Then she flew to a tree:
Aran was rather warm the whole time:
MrsG returned and Aran flew off:
At last Aran flew to the perch with an unfortunate but very beautiful fish:
I can't wait to see what happens next ;)
Oh! He flew off with it !!! Camperson couldn't find him, either :o
But then, only 12 minutes after first bringing in the fish to the perch, MrsG was able to wrest the rather paltry remains from Aran's talons - he must have been very hungry!
She took it to her tree:
It only took her 15 minutes to eat it, then she returned to the perch (no close-ups) and soon took over from Aran - who, give him his due, gave MrsG another break not too long afterwards:
She had a good preen and refreshed herself:
Until she flew to take over from Aran, but we didn't see the changeover:
Aran brought another fish but only stayed on the perch momentarily, didn't see where he took it:
Half was passed to MrsG later:
When she'd finished she returned with a very small stick, that's the time she had to access her eggs from underneath Aran, which IIRC was reported at the time. No good for snaps.
Just after 16:00 there was another changeover but it was during a very buffery and fuzzy phase, but Aran didn't stay long.
MrsG gave us a look:
Looking good:
Supper - this is the best view of the (one-third?) fish but not of Aran's wings, couldn't get both at the same time:
She took it to the tree.
Aran would neither look at the cam nor keep still for his close-up:
MrsG taking over again:
Any frustration she felt, she took out on a stick:
The returned to her usual sweet self ;)
Just after that I lost the cam to the usual evening "malfunction", and because I was asleep, and since then have not had it viewable, it's still on the same screen and I'm not shifting myself to normalise it at this stage - what's done is done, what's missed is missed :(
Rollback reveals an egg-check 2 hours ago: