Link to previous thread: Loch of the Lowes - June 2019
The season so far: LM12 (Laddie) arrived back 15 March and LF15 (Lassie) on 23 March. Lassie laid 3 eggs on 4, 7 and 10 April hatching 11, 12 and 16 May. Sadly on 26 May tragedy struck and the third chick died. The remaining two chicks were ringed on 26 June as follows: #1 Blue PT4 (M) and #2 Blue PT5 (M).
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There's also a video from the 22nd July of the boys tackling a live fish
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13:35 It's good to see the boys
PT5 on the left
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15:14 PT4 was on the nest, Laddie delivered a small fish
PT5 incoming (top left)
Starling said:I wonder if PT4 did catch the fish!
Here's our answer... (though I reported the time slightly earlier when he came to the nest with it) Someone has replied to the post to say they witnessed one of the juveniles catch a fish yesterday morning as well
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You're welcome Cirrus :) 20:45 Although PT4 and PT5 have spent quite a lot of time on the nest during the past couple of hours, I've not seen any fish deliveries. They did do some defending of the nest at one point as there was an unseen intrusion overhead. ENS at present
21:36 Laddie delivered a fish to the two waiting boys. After a brief scuffle, PT5 claimed it
21:48
22:00 PT5 finished the fish and flew from the nest. PT4 wandered over to the area PT5 had eaten from, no morsel to find so left at 22:03
Both flew towards the dead tree on the left, across the Loch
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