The arrival of our couple, virtually together, was first snapped @ 19:12
©SANDRA !!!
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©SHEENA
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Yikes !!! I thought I must have missed it but it's all there waiting for attention :)))
Thank you, everyone, for the super captures and info :)
I can't believe they arrived together - but they did! ;-D
Three matings altogether, only the first successful, IMHO. They were on the nest nearly 13 minutes, this is cut down to 5 but no significant activity missing - you know how they like to stand and (males) mantle and (females) look a bit nonplussed ;)
UNCUT VERSION:
The first was the best ;)
He sat here for ages after his second nestcupping:
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IMAGICAT
LOL!! I take so long doing it half a dozen folk could have posted in the interim!
But
18.16 FISH delivery from Louis. Aila was a little slow in grabbing it, but grab it she did and flew off. Louis is incubating, barely noticing there were now three eggs!
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I take "so longer" than you, SHEILA :(
I spied the (hopefully) fish delivery on my way to the kitchen and replayed on return.
Not the fish supper I had hoped for...
Except, I forgot to resize the frame after doing LG's little bird, so my 3 snaps are useless and I'm not doing them again.
IMAGINE
SNAP - One-third to half a fish incoming
SNAP - Louis incubates 3 eggs for the first time this season (I think)
SNAP - Aila returned but Louis didn't get up so she flew after 2 minutes.
I relented and fetched up Louis's first approach to incubating 3 eggs - he had a mucky beak:
No fish supper for Aila tonight.
I've done 3 videos of her "disturbances" tonight, just for the record.
First she had a strange wander around the nest:
Next, a definite alarm plus a poop:
Then a couple of half-hearted wing-warnings:
She's been OK since.
Nearly! But it didn't come to anything ;)
No more alarms or panics :)
Aila saw Louis but I couldn't, she flew off out to our left:
And Louis flew in from the same direction:
He sat shifting the clump in front of him:
Aila is back with a lump of something - bark?
Louis has flown (go fishing!) and Aila has settled on the eggs.
Yes, a large piece of bark: