2019 season summary: Laddie (LM12) arrived back from migration on Friday 15th March; Lassie (LM15) on Saturday 23rd March. Lassie laid 3 eggs on 4th, 7th and 10th April, hatching 11th, 12th and 16th May. Sadly, on 26th May the third chick died. The remaining two chicks were ringed on 26th June as follows: #1 Blue PT4 (M)* #2 Blue PT5 (M)*. They successfully fledged and subsequently set off for their first migration on 14th/15th August. Laddie left around the same time as the youngsters and it is thought that Lassie had already started her journey south approximately 2 weeks prior.
* Updated to both being female © Uk Ospreys
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Both Ospreys (unringed) have been a breeding pair on this nest since 2015, after the iconic 'Lady' failed to return.
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Looking forward to Laddie and Lassie's safe homecoming and a very successful 2020 breeding season
Laddie (LM12) arrived back to LotL at 15:33 on 21st March. Blog here>
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/2020/03/lm12-is-back-at-loch-of-the-lowes/
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HELEN & KORKY, you may have missed the "sounds from 2 mornings running" that I posted yesterday morning - I've had no help on YouTube, but my main adviser/critic is American, so...
This is from approx the time of this morning's broadcast ;)
IMAGICAT
Another flyoff, about 7 hours ago:
No more Laddie for the rest of the day, so far.
scylla said:I have been wondering for the past couple of days if some of our sounds could be fish or "water mammals".
And also noticing that some sounds repeat themselves very quickly and louder, are we getting echoes?
I couldn't find the Corncrake, WENDY, but have definitely heard one along the way.
This morning - sorry, it's over 4 minutes, one can't decide when to stop ;) but the sounds stopped soon after this:
I don't know if that will show up, it's a blank rectangle at the mo :-/
I scrolled back about an hour and Laddie was on the nest..... and he has just arrived back with a twiggy twig LOL
@ around 6 am
He moves the smallest twig on the nest :-)
Then about 5 mins ago he brings in this long twiggy branch
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