Inspired by Janni, who cleverly noted the cam was up and running on 1 March, and filled with hope for this nest for 2021, here's the new thread!
Link to 2020 thread
In 2017, her first breeding season. Clarach (hatched Dyfi in 2013) mated with an unknown male, laying 3 eggs. The third chick hatched/died 15th June, the other two on 12th and 13th June. Male LHO took his first flight 4th August, Male LH1 9th August. Clarach departed 1st September, LHO 3rd, LH1 12th September.
Clarach came back in 2018 but sadly lost her eggs to ravens. In 2019, she returned on 10 April, and partnered first with White CL, a 2008 bird hatched at Loch Lomond. He disappeared and was replaced by an unringed male on 3 May, and Clarach was seen to be incubating by 6 May (who was the daddy...?!). But she'd abandoned the nest by the end of May and Dyfi posted that her eggs had been predated. It was difficult to keep up with the nest as the webcam failed but FLS posted updates on their Facebook page. Staff thought the male hadn't been providing her with fish on the nest, as he had another nest to provision! In 2020, hope was raised when a few ospreys dropped by in April and May, including White CL, at one point on the nest with an unringed female. The Lodge Facebook page posted a great photo by Sami in April which was thought to be Clarach. After that, lots of osprey-less photos were posted comparing the rise and fall of the webcam, the state of the sticks on the nest, the sinkage of the nest (great word Mary) and the weather.
Let's see what happens this year!
I see the Webcam is down this morning, maybe they are working on it with any luck.
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Doing some housekeeping on my Osprey files, and came across this photo of Clarach taken 6th May 2017 @ 1051 - I do hope if she returns to Aberfoyle she will make an appearance on the webcam so we at least know she is alright. Also with any luck the rangers will be able to check the other nests in the area later on in the season and let us know if she is breeding elsewhere. A lot to ask I suppose, be we can hope!
Cam still not up this morning so far
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A beautiful picture of dear Clarach, Mary
Cam has come on since your post. I see that the clock is around 15 minutes out from real time (snap taken at 10:10)
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I wonder if that time difference will get bigger as the season goes on Sandra
Disappointing no change to webcam position - looks like we are stuck with it.
I think there was a difference with the clock last season as well.
Let's hope someone will brave enough to climb up to adjust the cam for us, Mary
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Just a note, Scylla, the cam (when running) only plays for around 3 minutes before it needs clicking to restart the viewing (for me anyway) so may not be suitable for recording?
Sandra P said:Just a note, Scylla, the cam (when running) only plays for around 3 minutes before it needs clicking to restart the viewing (for me anyway) so may not be suitable for recording?
Oh, thanks for the warning, Sandra! We'll see if the esteemed downloader can overcome that, but I may not find any stream link at all