LOCH ARKAIG - The Woodland Trust - June 2020

Fine thanks Ian...just like many though...Isolating. :(
Thanks for asking :) Hope all is well with you too.

I am stream watching 6 nests...but love the pair here at Arkaig...Such characters. :)
I dont know if it is just me...but there doesn't seem to be the same atmosphere and buzz around the RSPB Loch Garten Community pages this year.. Maybe it is not helped by the frustrations many have come up against when trying to post :(
I have not isolated from getting links of these wonders out to a greater audience though...just spending much more of my time on Discord these days amongst friends of another of my pastimes....Flight Simming :P

17.02, the camera is back and there is a fish on the nest that wasn't there at 16.24. So have we missed two fish deliveries as a result of the camera twice being down? Ian

Yes, Trying, I've been thinking the same. A lot of names/faces are missing, when we had the old site, there was often 20 + people on-line at any one time, now is there is 5, you're lucky. I think, maybe because some of these sites have there own 'chat' facility, people are joining in with those.

She obviously needed a wee, Louis, wasn't prepared to come & look after the kids!

17.34, Aila is eating from one of the two fish that are on the nest. She may be feeding as well but is blocking the view. Ian

17.32 Egg three appears to have a crack

17.41.02 Yes! Enlarged photo:

©Woodland Trust

Egg3: is it or isn't it doing things? Opinion is divided on WT chat, a clump of nesting material has been mentioned as causung an illusion..

 Thanks to all for documenting the trials & tribs :)  I had 150+ failed files to clear out when I logged on

Trying said:

dont know if it is just me...but there doesn't seem to be the same atmosphere and buzz around the RSPB Loch Garten Community pages this year..

Not just you, TRYING   

Ian S said:

17.02, the camera is back and there is a fish on the nest that wasn't there at 16.24. So have we missed two fish deliveries as a result of the camera twice being down? Ian

Two deliveries in down time, record five so far today. The delivery times of the last two were assigned as the midpoint of the downtime:

https://youtu.be/HoxW2lGdlq4    Fish number 2 at  04:32:16