Hi folks,
Wasn't around for most of the day but found out I hadn't missed much. Just two hungry osps waiting all day for a meal which never came. Thanks to you all for your posts and pics yesterday.
It looks increasingly likely that EJ has begun her migration as she has not been seen since early on Saturday morning according to official sources.
Time is running out for us all for this year, I wonder how many more days before Odin leaves and then the juves will have to go if they are to survive and learn to fish on their way to fresh pastures new....sighhhhhhhhhh
Over to the early morning crew - keep us going. Night, Night.
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Hi Lynette i agree with you more the adults provided for them the less likely they were to provide for them selves this way they with have fish for them selves before they go or on migration
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I know everyone is very emotional at the moment, but it saddens me to see some blaming poor Odin for the current predicament the young ones are in. Eveything Odin has done (or not done) has been in the best interests of the survival of the chicks. He tried to encourage them to go fishing themselves by cutting down on fish until they were hungry. He tried to teach them not to trust anyone, not even him, not to pinch their fish, and so to guard it well. He stayed as protector until it must have been obvious to him that the chicks would always expect him to provide fish while he was anywhere in the vicinity. He was forced to leave so they would fish themselves, hopefully before they left on migration. If anything, his efforts were hampered by the very maternal EJ, who probably kept up the fish supply a bit too well for these particular chicks, who relied on room service so much. She only feft when she did this year because the personalities of these two youngsters would not allow her to feed them, as she did with last year's brood. The circumstances and the chicks each year are different, and Odin has had to make some tough choices in the best interests of his chicks. Please don't blame him for this.
Smiles, Jan.
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Oh dear, our youngsters may well be with us until Wednesday but I trust not !!!!!
Cirrus I think that these two birds are more Deshar than Rothes. Do not be too susprised if they are still here on Thursday!
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Wattle15 said: I know everyone is very emotional at the moment, but it saddens me to see some blaming poor Odin for the current predicament the young ones are in. Eveything Odin has done (or not done) has been in the best interests of the survival of the chicks. He tried to encourage them to go fishing themselves by cutting down on fish until they were hungry. He tried to teach them not to trust anyone, not even him, not to pinch their fish, and so to guard it well. He stayed as protector until it must have been obvious to him that the chicks would always expect him to provide fish while he was anywhere in the vicinity. He was forced to leave so they would fish themselves, hopefully before they left on migration. If anything, his efforts were hampered by the very maternal EJ, who probably kept up the fish supply a bit too well for these particular chicks, who relied on room service so much. She only feft when she did this year because the personalities of these two youngsters would not allow her to feed them, as she did with last year's brood. The circumstances and the chicks each year are different, and Odin has had to make some tough choices in the best interests of his chicks. Please don't blame him for this.
According to Roy Dennis' book pages 78 & 80 the male does all the feeding after the female has left. He brings a fish for one and immedatley goes back for fish for the other chick(s) . The male stays until the last chick has gone and then leaves . They are all gone by mid September.
It says nothing in his book that the male stops feeding the chicks before they leave to teach them a lesson !
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I agree with you, Lynette and Wattle 15.
They are birds, after all, and we are humans. We humans all do things differently; and so do birds of the same species. It is what Charles Darwin noticed in order to be able to write his Origin of Species. We wouldn't be here without evolution, which involves constant change.
I'm sure I wouldn't now do some of the things I did when bringing up my daughters. I think differently now compared with 27 years ago. Just because Odin and EJ are birds doesn't mean they can't change their ideas about bringing up their broods of chicks each year.