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!
Korky its not slopey when you see it straight on LOL.... as in view on screen in VC.
Who is trying to usher them to the right hand side of the screen
White CL it is.... I get the feeling they are using this as a resting place, and have no intention of staying here, as they don't seem bothered about doing any work on the nest.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
Birdies LG DU update.
This is just a holding snap - we can't read the ring number but I'm sure it's the regular white-ringed male CL - video to follow but it will take a while, gotta include his fish-eating, leaving returning, her arrival...
IMAGICAT
Nice one Scylla.
Maybe its "shall we go out for dinner dear" to that other nest in the Ard forest - I think the birds are doing better than us getting out and about.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The female is unringed. Tucking into her fish
©F&LS
CL
(Sorry to be so late, things going on here all morning.)
I get the impression they are only just getting to know each other ??? We can't tell if this is the same unringed female we've seen before.
Just up to 12:21:
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
Up to 13:00 no mating attempts seen.
Someone interesting but unthreatening?
The next hour up to now flying off just before 14:00:
Not long afterwards CL returned with a stick in each foot (he won't rival 33 tho ), he stayed 5 minutes or so: