Congratulations to Ems and all at the ©Dyfi Osprey Project, you have kept a great service going throughout this difficult time.
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From this:
To this:
... in no time at all ;)
Compliments of ALISON:
"KC7 (Bob1) is Tywi (pronounced Toe-wee) and KC6 (Bob2) is Teifi (pronounced Tay-vee)"
Brought forward from 01 July, the proud and prolifically provisioning parents:
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IMAGICAT
Teifi tucking into a huge trout He probably won't have to share with his brother as has probably left Not seen on the nest since 13.55 yesterday Please stay safe young man We would like to see you again in a couple of years time
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Thank you, PATILY, re TYWI
patily said:
Not seen on the nest since 13.55 yesterday Please stay safe young man We would like to see you again in a couple of years time.
That's what I get for "skimming too fast thru the footages" !!! Look what I missed! (Fetched from Recycle Bin, wow, not emptied.) It looks as tho Teifi treated his brother like an intruder - if the two you see are indeed Tywi and Teifi.
Strange that Tywi would have chosen to migrate in this weather - did Teifi drive him off and the wind carry him away southwards?
It's definitely Tywi we first see, I checked with magnifier. Soon after this sequence Teifi returns and starts his 3-hour wait. All times approx, I keep getting lost in it, with no timeline.
(Secret "Unlisted" video.)
Imagicat || Tiger's links || 2022 LG Obs
22 August
I've wasted so much time trying to read ring numbers :'(
First in this morning:
The corvid was displaced when a juvie emerged from the arrowed gap and flew to the nest, touching the left arm of the night perch on the way - he stayed on the nest for just under 15 minutes and flew off:
At breakfish time, Idris nearly carried KC6 away, so convinced was the juvie that he had hold of the fish:
KC6 enjoying victory, he appeared to eat every scrap before flying:
He was back again for 10 minutes before 08:15.
Next !!!
Serial intruder, KS8, the Clywedog female, arrived on the nest and Idris brought a fish - but knew she wasn't family so he flew off with it.
(Difficult to get a clear snap at this stage.)
KS8 was off and back, and KC6 came to defend the nest:
Blurred, but you get the idea - KC6 was fierce!
As we've seen before, KS8 just wanted to be frenz ;) but she was repeatedly driven off. Maybe KC6 is too young to be charmed:
After KS8 was finally driven away, KC6 waited for hours for a fish:
Finally, at teatime, a lovely big fish arrived:
Another leg-pull by desperate KC6 - poor Idris!
There were several dropouts thru the day, and now I can't play the 6-hour clip up to 23:00, there must be a corruption in it. So that's as far as I go.
Thanks for the update, Scylla. Teifi has really grown up suddenly. Dyfi has produced a vid of yesterday's intrusion by Blue KS8(18)f from Clywedog, here - Teifi the Defender!
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scylla said:
https://youtu.be/UThcmNIlsXo
patily said:Teifi on the nest eating what appears to be left-over fish
Yes, he dug it out of the sticks as soon as he landed (I'm so relieved to see him looking A1 after losing all those hours last night):
He's eaten enough and is about to fly:
Left plenty for later, if it survives the corvids and... will we see KS8 today?
Five hours later he (I can only assume, as we didn't get a zoom) came and flew off with the leftover - a corvid had luckily ignored it earlier:
Later the corvid did find something to pinch:
No-one seen again until teatime, when KC6 flew in and fish-screamed ;)
Idris flew in with a headless flounder:
But there was a mysterious delay in handing it over, Idris flew off and back with it several times, something was bothering him. Here's another one of my illegal videos - I think as long as it's not spread around, and it's Unlisted so the TV companies won't find it, we'll be OK:
Idris brought another flounder, see how he was looking out to the side again:
We were on a long view of Idris still eating his fish when nightcam suddenly kicked in, an ultra-zoomed piece of nest appeared, and I couldn't find anyone after that. Very strange. This is lightened a lot:
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