LOCH ARKAIG - The Woodland Trust - April 2020

tidying

"Disaster" this morning, as I forgot that I'd had to turn off the monitor last night due to permanent buffer, so when I went to check on arrivals they were nowhere to be seen ;)

Fish:

Both on the nest and then Louis did a beautifl fly away disappearing behind the treesat thetop f the pic

Perhaps we'll get an egg at the end of the week I think they have kept us waiting in previous years

Morning all. I haven't done a scroll back to first light but from what I have seen on the WT chat, Scylla has captured above the only item of real interest, being a headless fish at 06.28. WT chat reports there was a bit of pass the parcel with Aila eventually finishing the fish on the nest. There have been reports of a few matings, I (by chnace) saw one attempt but Aila most definitely tipped Louis off. Ian

10.47, Aila has been fish calling for ages, she is rewarded with a nice headless fish which she takes with no fuss and flies. There have also been three (that I have seen) successful matings and one clump of moss since my last post. Ian

Fish delivery as described by Ian above. 

Aila promptly leaves with her fish

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11.44, failed mating attempt, Aila was completely uninterested. I'm not going to bother posting about any more mating, what we want now is an egg with more to follow! Ian

14.45, Sorry for the late post, I was doing a spot of gardening. Aila isn't calling for fish as Louis brings in a headless one. She doesn't really show any interest in it, glancing at it from time to time. When she shows a modicum of interest I get the impression Louis isn't keen to hand it over. After about seven minutes of standing holding it, Louis flies off with it. When Louis returns at 15.00 she still doesn't seem interested in the fish, so after eight minutes Louis flies with it. He comes back at 16.06, this time empty taloned. Ian