LINK TO MAY 2019
Everyone is waiting with baited breath on a first hatch for Louis and Aila.....
Korky's Laying times
Egg 1, 23 April Egg 2, 26 AprilEgg 3, 29 April
Work out the days yourself, its too early in the morning for me to do it ha ha....
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Aila doing her early morning stretching exercises :-)
She went for a fly around
Anything Mum can do I can do better LOL
Turning into two beautiful Big Bobs :-)
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04-10 ish am First fish of the day....and fine one it is too.
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04-41 am .. 2nd fish arrives,,,this time headless, and is left on the nest, even though first one is still not completely eaten YET!!
06-20 ish am .. 'We are really awake now...where have you gone Mum?'
Notice how crafty Aila is getting...some minutes earlier, before she went fly-about, she cleverly tried to disguise the 2nd fish sitting on the nest...by half covering it with a piece of bark!!
@ 06.55 am AILA trying hard to get some shut-eye.
But the Bobs won't give her peace, as keep wriggling under her. Awww doesn't she look adorable :-)
Aila decides its breakfast time and starts to feed from the fish on the nest.. She goes slowly at first then speeds up to breakneck speed. LOL Love those squeaks they make getting fed.
It's all go on the nest this morning
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What a lovely surprise to see the coverage this early morning! Thanks so much for great commentary and pictures, MARY & TRYING :) And the video, MARY :)
Just as well I popped in before doing a catchup, you've saved me a lot of work ;) But I shan't remember exactly what I've seen so there'll be dupes.
Nighttime bits 'n pieces.
Aila is a lovely osprey:
She spent 5 solid minutes giving her under-tail feathers welly, both sides:
It was an undisturbed night, excluding being bobbled from underneath ;)
As already posted, Louis did us proud with early breakfishes:
Aila brought in bark:
A little episode:
Aila brought more bark:
Shifted this stick several times:
Brought more bark!
And a stick which was rather fuzzy so I had to paint it *eek*
That's it up to 08:00.
IMAGICAT
Someone needs to grab a vid of what happened when 3rd fish of the day arrived at about 09-55 am
© Woodland Trust - Arkaig 2019Several minutes of pure joy to watch