Last season Louis and Aila arrived on their nest almost at the same instant on the 4th of April. Here's to a repeat, but a few days earlier to save our anxiety.
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IMAGICAT
12.36, mating on the camera! Aila had jumped up to the camera a 12.10. Ian
13.00, successful mating. Before that, they had both been looking skyward curiously & it sounded like something made contact with the camera but they weren't perturbed so maybe not.
13.10, they both leave the nest in a hurry but go in separate directions & there is no calling.
Ian
The nest looks perfect Aila currently doing some fine tweaking
13.54, mating.
14.04, Aila jumps up to the camera with a call. Her shadow is on the nest until 14.07 when she flies alarm calling.
Good Morning All
Nest is empty at the moment, but Aila has been off and on the nest over the last hour and ten minutes, sometimes sitting up on her perch. She has taken a real liking to that perch this season.
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Louis has just arrived with a fish, and is mantling over it, while Aila chirps for it, she eventually grabs it and takes it away. Louis potters about the nest.
Tug-O-Fish
I hope she hasn't dropped it as she was having difficulty gripping it as she also had some straw in her talons.
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