Here's hoping Clarach comes back safely from migration and has a more successful year. Here's the link to the last post of last year's thread. She's 'due' back on 10 April.
Here's a bit of her history at this nest.
2017, first breeding season. Clarach arrived 19 April 2017, and mated with unknown male, laying 3 eggs 4th, 7th and 10th May. The third chick hatched/died 15th June, the other two on 12th and 13th June. Male LHO took his first flight 4th August, Male LH1 9th August. Clarach departed 1st September, LHO 3rd, LH1 12th September.
Clarach came back in 2018 but sadly lost her eggs to ravens. In 2019, she returned on 10 April, and partnered first with White CL, a 2008 bird hatched at Loch Lomond. He disappeared and was replaced by an unringed male on 3 May, and Clarach was seen to be incubating by 6 May (who was the daddy...?!). But she'd abandoned the nest by the end of May and Dyfi posted that her eggs had been predated. It was difficult to keep up with the nest as the webcam failed but FLS posted updates on their Facebook page.
Fingers crossed for this year, for both Clarach and the webcam.
Still empty at the moment.
What we need is some vigorous mating on the cam post to ease the cam down a little
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Well I am heading for a seat in the garden seeing as the weather is so nice.
Good Luck everyone, I hope the pair arrive this afternoon for you!
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Afternoon all,
No activity seen so far as much as I've been able to check today.
I did find this response (on the chat under the live stream), posted within the past 24 hours, from FaLS to a question regarding the cam position and if it could be panned down to show more of the nest.
'Forestry and Land ScotlandHi Colin, Thanks for getting in touch. Our camera software is currently being upgraded, so we are unable to remotely control the camera at present. However, regrettably, our wildlife rangers no longer expect the birds to return to this spot this year. Usually, the birds would build the nest up, giving the current camera position the perfect view of the breeding pair and their chicks. Unfortunately, this hasn't happened this year. We have our fingers crossed for 2021.'
Thanks for finding that reply from FaLS Sandra. Think they would need to build the nest up an AWFUL lot to get to camera height.
This was the first screenshot of the season that Karen posted on March 8th.
Just shows how drastically the webcam has moved.
This morning's view
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Unknown said:The nest is disappearing again!
Morning Korky, Yep!