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Everyone is waiting with baited breath on a first hatch for Louis and Aila.....
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Work out the days yourself, its too early in the morning for me to do it ha ha....
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Aila has been nagging Louis from afar, and he has now returned with a full crop and a tail end of fish which Aila grabs.
Louis has flown, and Aila starts another feed, taking a bit for herself too
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Fish ahoy!
Yes! Might have been an old bit
Doing some housework while he's here
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Bob shots
Midnight snack sorted
Feed and chicks grumbling for more but Aila decides enough is enough
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WOW...that was some fish that was just delivered .
But much to Aila's dismay after a couple of attempts to grab said fish...Louis chose to head off with it...maybe just to de-head it. Time will tell.
All is not lost however ...as some fish from earlier, that has sat there most of the night, was still there to provide some brekkie to the young ones.
The final fish delivery at the end of Monday was at 21.59, the leftover is what Trying spotted on the nest this morning (post at 06.45). The whopper this morning (see Trying's post) came in at 06.41 for those looking for it. Ian
I haven't done the night but am not going to stress over it as they (mummy and 2 babies) are here safe in the morning.
Aila had a flyabout at buffer time:
Both got fed from the leftover fish:
Aila looks extremely experienced and competent these days ;)
Then the superfish delivery reported by TRYING (I was watching but couldn't attend to it right away)... I'm wondering if Louis - both he and Aila, in fact - were wary of a presence... anyway, Louis would not let Aila have the fish, tugs-o-fish ensued and he ended up flying off with it. Aila eventually flew off and brought back a good slice of bark.
I couldn't get an unblurred shot of the whole fish
Aila later put on a stretching display during a preen:
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Aila has alarm called and flown off a couple of times this morning, came to nothing. It seems to have been a quiet night. Ian
EDIT - Louis also helping out by hesitantly feeding chick one as Aila fed chick two (approx 8.25 - 8.30).