'FORUM FRIENDS, WILDLIFE-FROM-WHEREVER' (Off-season, all cams off at Loch Garten)

Heartwarming to see a new little life safely emerged ... many thanks Scylla!

SWFEC: Possible pip in egg #2

©SWFEC/Dick Pritchett

First one won't be lonely for long then Sandra, hope they don't start squabbling immediately, hate to see this behaviour!

WendyBartter said:

First one won't be lonely for long

I think it must be here already, have found it almost hatched in the first clip I'm now checking.  It's going to take me a long time to get this vid done.

There's a kerfuffle going on at this moment, I happened to leave the tap open and heard "knocking" and eagle voices.

Main cam is zoomed on H, I should have the 360 but don't know what it shows yet.

scylla said:

kerfuffle

It was the Great Horned Owl (99%) knocking M15 off his perch, not an unusual occurrence and M15 was soon back - so he didn't chase it very far.

There's no sound on the 360 cam, so I've extracted it from the main cam and added it but it's not quite in sync but it's the best I'm going to do... or I'll never get back to th eaglets.

'Morning scylla. I just tuned in (main cam) and heard a wee chick cheep. They've had a lot of GHO trouble so far this season

Unknown said:

'Morning scylla. I just tuned in (main cam) and heard a wee chick cheep. They've had a lot of GHO trouble so far this season

Morning, Korky!  I don't think I've managed to capture any cheeping (well, I've surely captured it but not found it for snippets).

You may see in my description panel that I've put a link to Lady Hawk's YT channel - she covers this nest thoroughly and I see that she has the owl strike with the third cam, which shows it better - she also covers Albatrosses !!!

Here are snippets thru the day until nightcam, stopping hours before the owl:

The morning up to lunchtime - contrary to a false impression much earlier, #2 isn't making fast progress yet - maybe it'll happen all of a sudden:

Some way to go!

(c) SWFEC/Pritchett