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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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Oh boy that was quite a whopper Louis brought in just before 3 o'clock..... I know its been covered here but cannot resist some caps of his landing.
Lovely view of his tail feathers
So proud to show off his catch
Great to see the speed of posting is back to normal again.
All looks well on the nest at the moment, its a bit breezy while Aila incubates.
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Unknown said:Thanks Mary. Why are there no cot rails here!! What happened last year? For crying out Louis
Louis took most of them with him when he fell overboard yesterday 16.46, it was an amusing moment. Slo-mo Louis booted off by Aila
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Another whopper arrives at 19.25
20.44, Louis arrives with a fish. There is one on the nest already presumably he is bringing in the fish Geemeff kindly pointed out above (& which I completely missed!) from 19.25. Ian
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MaryGK said:
I know its been covered here but cannot resist some caps of his landing.
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Recognise anything, MARY? But I know it's not exactly the same.
Just to say - very handy when there are lots of nests to catch up on after a long absence :-*
Continuing from everyone's early night
And thank to all for the day's coverage, especially IAN and GEEMEFF :)
The final feed of the evening covered pre-post 22:00:
After which Aila had a flyabout and settled down:
She's had some nod-offs but has been alerted to unseen threats a few times, only serious enough to demand a raised head and look out towards the back.
IMAGICAT
Carrying on from your lovely round up Scylla - you confused me with the red zero's ha ha....
There have been three feeds that I can find this morning, and No.3 chick has been well fed during them.
Louis brought in a smallish fish at 04.27
Feed Commences
Next feed is almost an hour later
Aila must have a timer, as she is feeding almost to the hour
No.3 chicks gets many mouthfuls