Link to June 2019 thread (Following Karen's excellent example of providing useful links....)
On 1 July, chick 1 is 30 days old. Chick 2, from egg 3, is 27 days old.
Apart from the sad failure-to-hatch of egg 2 , everything has been reasonably settled on the nest, and Louis is in the running for Mary's 'Fisherman of the Year Award'.
Link to webcam, courtesy of The Woodland Trust
16-31 Nice headless fish delivered to the nest. Both young ones had been frantically calling for some time before, but Mallie was the one on the nest to initially lay claim,Some fish claiming tug-of-war currently going down!!!
"Save some for me"
(c) WT Loch Arkaig
I thought this would never end! I included quite a bit of Rannoch eating, as she might have had some diffuclty after picking up an unwise leftover, IYKWIM ;)
A fine headless FISH from Louis :)
IMAGICAT
scylla said:
I was kind of hoping you wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to post a vid of that scylla. Thanks
Late night fish
Rannoch alone on the test and finishing off a fish tail.
I thought she was going to swallow the tail but just too much so back to tearing at it.
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Birdies LG DU update.
Ian S said:It seems that Aila managed to fly off with the late fish last night, so hopefully she had it all to herself
About to fly
(And the red line is going to be there all night and morning, due to a misplaced mouse-pointer.)
Both JJs flew in, waited, flew off:
Aila brought back the same or similar, Mallie got it:
Rannoch was too late:
Eventually Rannoch was allowed to take the tail, just a tiny bit of flesh remaining:
Fine whole FISH !!!
Which Mallie won again:
But as she'd eaten a good portion already, Rannoch got a really big helping:
Rannoch left the tailend in the middle of the nest and had a prance around, Aila ate the remainder:
She did quite a bit of tidying up before leaving, then Rannoch left too:
Aila didn't come down from the campost until:
Looked around for a while:
Flew:
FISH !!!
Celebrating Louis's not-blurred wings!
First one then the other arrived:
Rannoch stood aside while Aila fed Mallie but then dipped in for some bites:
Feed ongoing.