DAILY UPDATES - Loch Garten nest - MAY 2019

It's snowing now!

Glad I don't live there even if they do have Ospreys (usually!)

Hell's teeth!  I must show you my LG day :'(

I was woken up by a loud spitting-type noise from the LG laptop, and there was dearest EJ on the screen :'(  I reset the URL from the Carnyx Channel LIVE NOW link and went back to sleep - however !!!  I had forgotten to reset the auto-refresh.  Hence:

EJ was there for 50 minutes before the noise woke me up:

I definitely set it to the correct URL because I got the snow - but YT had obviously set it on 144p again:

But it started buffering at this time and, without the half-hourly auto-refresh going, that's how it stayed for the day :'(

I despair and don't understand it!  This never happens with Arkaig and almost never with LotL and Glaslyn - all YT.

Maybe all will be miraculously resolved when there are Ospreys on the nest to focus on??

Well I am surprised. I had lots of confidence when I suggested that I was more worried that we would have too many Ospreys battling for this nest this year when it became evident that EJ was not to return rather than a lack of Ospreys. I think Tiger went even further by saying that there would be nesting this year. Now, due to the lack of sightings on the nest, whilst I applaud and understand the 'upbeat' blog from paid members of staff, my heart tells me that the sands of time are swiftly running out and that perhaps the best we can hope for is a pair meeting, greeting and forming a bond this year which might lead to a successful year next year. I hope I am proved wrong and that there are very late eggs this year, but tempus fugit and for a reason that might never be explained this 'des res' does not appear to have attracted a viable couple this year within a time frame that would result in a successful breeding season. Time for head scratching and evaluation of previous data allied with positive hopes for the future.

I’ve actually thought similar things for quite a while if you see my earlier posts and sadly if you check my earlier posts saying this, I also said that there could well be no Ospreys at all attempting to take over the nest and that this could be the end of an era when no Ospreys appear to try and mate. It’s just been sadly so quiet this year in 2019 on the Osprey nest and again I’ll say, i hope, I'm wrong.

The scene at LG now.

Wow! I’m just thinking how hot and sunny it was in February. But of course snow is not unheard off in May even lying at low levels even in Newcastle and Gateshead on oocasions in previous years in May, though not very often.

Settled even more but not still snowing, apparently: