As George Anderson has advised that the Webcam should be switched on mid March I thought we better get a thread opened up in readiness
LINK TO LOCH ARKAIG OSPREYS WEBSITE
Return Dates for Louis last year was 5th April 08.15 and Aila 6th of April 09.24
LINK TO AUGUST 2020 TO MARCH 2021 THREAD
LINK TO JULY 2020 THREAD
LINK TO JUNE 2020 THREAD
LINK TO MAY 2020 THREAD
LINK TO APRIL 2020 THREAD
LINK TO MARCH 2020 THREAD
LINK TO AUGUST 2019 THREAD - where you can get links to the previous MONTHLY threads
LINK TO LOCH ARKAIG OSPREYS 2018
LINK TO LOCH ARKAIG OSPREYS 2017
Some Stats for the nest.
2017 - Louis arrived 10th April - Aila 28th April - One chick hatched JH4 called Lachlan
2018 - Louis and Aila both arrived 6th April - All 3 eggs taken by Pine Martin
2019 - Louis and Aila both arrived 4th April - 3 eggs laid - 1. JJ0 Mallie (Female) 2. Did not Hatch 3. JJ2 Rannoch (Female)
2020 - Arrival dates as above - 3 eggs laid - 1. JJ6 Doddie (Male) 2. JJ8 Vera (Female) 3. JJ7 Captain (Male)
My video summarising the 2020 Season
Geemeff's Compilation video of the 2020 Season
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
The snowy nest set to Chopin:
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
In reply to SheilaFE:
SheilaFE said:
That's very relaxing Geemeff!
Thanks Sheila! Although the little Blue Tit that MaryGK noticed yesterday didn't think so, only stayed a few seconds. Snow's all gone for now, long range forecast says windy with slight possibility of snow during expected arrival week:
UK long range weather forecast
Friday 2 Apr - Sunday 11 Apr
Widely fine conditions are expected across the British Isles on Friday and Saturday with plenty of dry weather and sunny spells for most. Temperatures will be around or a little below average for the early part of April, with some chilly nights. It will likely turn colder and more unsettled from the north by the start of the following week. All areas of the UK are likely to see spells of rain and stronger winds. Some wintry showers are possible too though any snow is most likely over hills in the north of the country. After a colder spell, temperatures will probably start to return back closer to average towards the end of this period.
Over on WT chat, George is asking for arrival date guesses. I'm guessing both on the 6th.
WTGeorgeMOD
We are now approximately one week out from the hoped for and expected arrival of Louis and Aila.
Who would like to hazard a guess at when we will see them?
I am going to go for both on April 5th.
Kind regards, Ann
Message from George today:
WTGeorge
Morning all.
Liz tells me she received an email from Locheilnet that their system will be down tomorrow - I think its midnight tonight to 6am - for scheduled work.
That means that our camera stream will go dark. So please don't panic when it does!
Follow-up from George
WT George Anderson to Geemeff • 2 hours ago
We didn't seem to have any outage last night so mebbe it will be tonight.
Mr Sylvestris said:We have a major announcement this morning about an exciting new feature on the Arkaig Livestream
I wonder if someone could point me directly at this because I just can't find it - I know it'll be my own fault
In the meantime, I just had a scroll thru some of yesterday, which I don't always do, and look who appeared! Sonically before visually - this is cut down roughly:
IMAGICAT