LOCH OF THE LOWES - APRIL 2020

Thank you for those lovely pictures and the video (which I hadn't seen before!!!), MARY :-*

Good morning all,
 Thank you, Mary, for sharing your personal pictures and video of your visits to LotL 

11:12 Chipping heard, no Osprey visible

I've just scrolled back a minute or so prior to the 'chipping' and found a bird flying over the Loch - I couldn't make out whether it was an Osprey or not

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Unknown said:

Thanks Karen , sadly there were several at very end of recording I couldn't quite put my finger on - warblers. But most distinctly there were: a wood pigeon a robin a chaffinch a black cap a black bird and a chiff chaff. What did I miss please?

Hi Cirrus, was your post in reply to me, not Karen?

I relied on the bird names as highlighted on the LotL video so, unfortunately, I'm unable to help with your question

Edit - I've just caught up with the Manton Bay thread, I'm assuming you meant their quiz rather than this one?

15:11 An unringed female landed on the nest - a quick visit, 'chipped' and then flew off

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Hi Sandra. I looked at this on re-wind. About 5 minutes before this incident, 3 birds flew from right to left 'through the inlet' - they look the same as the 2 in your capture/on viewing live. Not ospreys I think but, can't be sure. It is worrying that there seem to be a number of incidents like this near nests during lock-down.

Hello Korky, thank you

I can understand if essential work needs to be done, if indeed it was that, though it was quite late in the day. Saying that, as we've been informed, the mic pics up a whole range of sounds in the distance so possibly something going on at the nearby farm. Hopefully, they were other birds rather than the Ospreys in flight.

Thank you for looking and I'm sure you have put a lot of anxious minds at rest.

Great captures and posts everyone, Sandra you have earned your Ms Marple title yet again

Another lovely morning on the loch (at the moment) 

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