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IMAGICAT
Fish delivery for Aila....
She was watching something in the sky
Then she jumped up with a vicious look
Louis landed with the fish but they were wary, and this was the cause a Hoodie must have been chasing Louis.
It is a fair size of fish, which Louis eventually took away from the nest again.... and Aila is incubating waiting on him coming back, she is shouting so he should bring it back
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She is still shouting, but no Louis as yet at 06.57...…
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Aila spent a routine night ~ alert but uninterrupted apart from a couple of short flyabouts.
Another flyabout @ 05:27, in less than 30 seconds she'd collected some small item in her left talon:
Louis came to relieve, accompanied by a stick:
Aila returned with a clump of mossy stuff:
She multitasked - shifting Louis's stick and getting him up at the same time ;)
Off he dutifully flew (hopefully, duty includes a nice big fish very soon :) ) ... I couldn't see him fly back once he'd wheeled around and disappeared out of the left side of our picture:
At 06.33 Aila brought in a new shag pile carpet this morning.....
She dropped it off then started to move the big stick about
Comically whilst incubating she decided to move the shag pile around a bit - nah she didn't like it to the left of her
Moved it back to where it originally was more or less
So now between nodding she is chirping for breakfast. Oh its getting more and more chirping, is breakfast imminent
EDIT: Ooops Scylla just noticed you covered the delivery of the Shag Pile
MaryGK said:Ooops Scylla just noticed you covered the delivery of the Shag Pile
Yes, but "mossy stuff" is so unimaginative compared to "shag pile"
Good morning everyone. Mary left us on tenterhooks yesterday evening with Louis taking a fish from the nest and by 18.57 not returning with it. WT chat says that Louis brought it back about five minuites later and Aila flew with it. Ian
A quick shoogle of the eggs
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11.03, nice headless fish. Ian
Ian S said:Mary left us on tenterhooks yesterday evening with Louis taking a fish from that nest and by 18.57 not returning with it. WT chat says that Louis brought it back about five minuites later and Aila flew with it.
Aila about to fly with half-fish :)
Ian S said:11.03, nice headless fish. Ian
Yer such a bully, IAN >:(
It was a nice flyoff at this split second but fuzzy the next: