August is the month when we've seen the Loch Arkaig ospreys depart on their journey south. We've enjoyed watching them this year - the wonderful parenting skills of Aila and Louis, and the antics of their 3 chicks, Captain, Vera and Doddie.
Mary GK did an absolutely wonderful video summarising the 2020 season. Thank you so much Mary! And here is Geemeff's great compilation, thank you!
2020 last dates:
Doddie JJ6 was last seen at the nest on Saturday 15th August 2020
Aila was last seen on Saturday 22nd August 2020
Captain JJ7 was last seen on Sunday 23rd August 2020
Vera JJ8 was last seen on Saturday 5 September.
An unidentified osprey was seen off camera on Sunday 6 September eating a fish. This could well have been Louis, having arrived and found no Vera around to feed.
Doddie JJ6 was videod and photographed fishing for over a fortnight at Avalon Marshes in Somerset
Link to July 2020 thread
Link to Youtube channel
Link to Woodland Trust Loch Arkaig page/webcam feed
14.18, second fish. JJ8 takes the fish away immediately (no alarm calls unlike yesterday when she did the same). Ian
Korky, are you renaming this thread (rather than starting a new one) per previous discussions? Maybe you could rename it to cover the winter months as well as has already happened with other threads (e.g. Glaslyn & Lowes). Ian
EDIT - and of course keeping the reference to Mary's end of season vid.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
MaryGK said:Good idea Ian as over winter months not so much posted and it keeps all the end of the season stuff plus continuing on over winter if you know what I mean. I’d suggest to February, then a new one can be started for March 2021 when the webcam will probably be switched on,
That sounds like a plan. Ian
Ian and Mary, your wish is my command. Dun. But I can't enter departure dates for Louis and Vera as they've not went yet...or have they....?
Another tweet by Gus Robin showing JJ6/Doddie with a fish at 17.44 tonight
https://twitter.com/blackdownbirder?s=21
She's still here!
07.48, JJ8 is back again. She left at 07.56 but can still be heard shouting! Ian