Link to August thread
Aila left on 13 August and Mallie on 20 August. Rannoch failed to follow the weekly departure pattern and we're were still enjoying her noisy company on 31 August. But not so many fish for her today and perhaps Louis is encouraging her to leave.
It's been a happy nest, mostly, this season, apart from the failure to hatch of egg 2. Let's hope Aila and Louis come back next year and we see both Mallie and Rannoch again in a couple of years.
EDIT. Louis was last seem on Thursday 5 September and Rannoch on Friday 6 September.
A free fishy feast for a passing osprey
(c) WT Loch Arkaig
One of the fish has moved!
Aha!! The fish-moving-culprit appeared a few hours ago.
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
RSPB Giving Nature a Home
She's still quite a bit younger than the MB chicks when they left :)
Since the time KORKY snapped when Rannoch came back and ate some fish, she hasn't been back:
IMAGICAT
The fish are still home alone
Geezo. Just after I'd posted. Still yelling for more.
Lynette D said:But does he know when to leave. Let's hope soon so that Rannoch can learn she can't have everything her own way. Surely she must be off soon!!
I would think that Louis knows the routine Lynette, this is the third year that Louis has been a partner/father (albeit with no chicks in 2018 after the pine marten egg theft) that we are aware of, not to mention an unknown number of migrations before he came to our attention via the webcam. Ian