Link to May 2020 thread
Aila and Louis' first chick hatched on Friday 29 May. Perhaps we can expect number 2 and 3 to hatch on 1 and 4 June.
May brought lots of fish, clods, shag pile, sticks, osprey and owl intruders and fame to Aila and Louis, appearing on the BBC, Channel 4 and Chris Packham's Self Isolating Bird Club Live.
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Morning all, Louis & Aila looking relaxed on the nest. Aila fish calling despite Louis' excellent efforts so far this morning. Louis flies off as I am typing and one of the bobs peeks out from under Aila. The early 03.56 fish is the earliest so far this year. Ian
Great to see the video of the second fish of the day Scylla.
Loved how Louis stood there like the proverbial male strutting his stuff, showing his fish off and he had plenty to be proud off, two fish deliveries before 04.32 am WOW Louis LOL....
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scylla said:
Nobody knows what we go thru
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Scylla I hope you realised that I hadn't seen your post when you mentioned the early fish delivery when I was posting after you - the site was soooo frustrating this morning.
08.11, Aila flies off & Louis comes in. Aila is soon back with a piece of bark. Both bobs with heads up looking sprightly. Ian
MaryGK said:First delivery was at 03.56 (Louis you are my hero) I don't think I have seen a fish delivered this early before.
Here it is, including whole feed, unedited and "unlisted", just for our records - save IAN having to roll back ;)
IMAGICAT
As Ian described, Aila flies off and Louis comes in
Aila comes back and they both stand on the nest, all the time the chicks looking to be fed
Louis must be tired with all his fishing efforts this morning
A Yawn
and off he goes flying up to his tree on the horizon
Louis demonstrating that when the going gets tough the tough get going . Fish three of the morning, this time headless. The bobs already had their heads up in anticipation. Ian
EDIT - I forgot to give the time, 10.30.
EDIT 2 - looking back, the fish was whole.
At 04:00 daily the stream cuts off and renews itself after a minute (more/less), so I don't have the start but Aila was already serving breaklfish:
Morning Scylla - longest camera jump this season: 6 mins 4 secs from 03.56.42 to 04.02.46. Lucky Louis brought the first fish at 03.56.10, otherwise we would have missed his new record delivery.